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least liable to those researches, on the part of chap. 
spies and custom-house officers, which were < — - * — 
likely to impede our departure. Having crossed 
the steppes leading to this place, we arrived 
there in the middle of the night. Such a tre- 
mendous storm of thunder, lightning, wind, hail, 
and rain, came on before we reached the town, that 
our Jiorsesy refuse^ to proceed; and we were 
compelled to halt, opposing our backs to its 
fury, until the violence of the tempest subsided 2 * * * * * * 9 . 
As soon as morning dawned, we caused our 
baggage to be sealed at the custom-house; and 
agreed for our passage, at the enormous rate of 
two hundred and fifty roubles : this was deemed 
by us a moderate sum, as the original demand 
had been six hundred. The common rate of a 
passenger from Koslof to Constantinople is not 
more than ten; but it was evident that the 
Turks, suspecting the nature of our situation, 
(2) Owing to sleeping in this situation, exposed to the miasmata of 
salt-marshes, causing a somnolency it is impossible to resist, a quartan 
fever which the author had so long combated was again renewed. 
Mr. Crijips was also attacked, but with different effect; a sore throat, 
attended by a eutancous eruption covering his whole body, and from 
which he was soon relieved, was all the consequence to him of the 
vapours to which he had bceu exposed. These observations cannot be 
reconciled to the account Paths afterwards published of the exha- 
lations from the stagnant lakes near Koslof. He says, ( vol . II. p. 489) 
they contribute greatly to the salubrity of the town, and that inter- 
mittent fevers are less frequent here than at other places. 
