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Governor’s acquiescence in an additional contra- 
band cargo of two thousand bulls’ hides; the 1 * — 
exportation of this article being, at that time, 
strictly prohibited. 
Koslof 1 derives its name from a Tahtar com- 
pound, Gus I'ove ; the origin of which cannot be 
distinctly ascertained. Gus signifies ‘ an eye,’ 
and Ove ‘a hut.’ The Russians, with their 
usual ignorance of antient geography, bestowed 
upon it the name of Eupatorium . It has been 
shewn already, that Eupatorium stood in the 
Minor Peninsula of the IleracleoUe, near the city 
of Chersonesus. As to the present state of the 
place itself, it is one of those wretched remnants 
of the once flourishing commercial towns of the 
Crimea, which exemplify the effects of Russian 
(l) “At Koslof, or Eupatoria, I remember nothing interesting: 
but in the desert near it, we saw some parties of the Nagav Tahtars, 
and had an opportunity of examining their kibitkas, which are shaped 
something like a bee-hive, consisting of a frame of wood covered with 
felt, and placed upon wheels. They are smaller and more clumsy 
Utau the tents of the Kalmucks, and do not, like them, take to pieces. 
Jn the Crimea, they are more used for the occasional habitation of the 
shepherd, than for regular dwellings. We saw a great many buffaloes 
and camels: several of the latter we met drawing in the two-wheeled 
carts described before, a service for which I should have thought them 
not so well adapted as for bearing burthens ; and although a chariot 
of camels * is mentioned by Isaiah, I do not remember having heard of 
such a practice elsewhere. The plain of Koslof is hardly elevated above 
the sea, and fresh water is very scarce and bad." Heber s MS. Journal. 
