TO ODESSA. 
into the Black Sea. The former has become so 
shallow, that during certain winds, as before 
related, a passage may be effected by land from 
Taganrog to Azof, through the bed of the sea. 
Ships, formerly sailing to Taganrog and to the 
Mouths of the Don, are now unable to approach 
either to the one or to the other : from all this, 
it may not be unreasonable to conclude, that 
both the Black Sea and the Sea of Azof, by the 
diminution their waters hourly sustain, will at 
some future period become a series of marsh 
lands, intersected only by the course and 
junction of the rivers flowing into them. An 
opposite opinion was however maintained by 
the learned Tournefort, as to the quantity of 
water flowing through the Canal of Constan- 
tinople: he believed that less water is discharged 
by that Canal than by any one of the great rivers 
which fall into those seas 2 . The same author 
expresses therefore his surprise that the Black 
Sea does not increase, and observes that it 
receives more rivers than the Mediterranean ; as 
if unmindful that the Mediterranean contains the 
body of all the rivers that flow into the Mceotis 
and the Black Sea. Other writers also, believing 
that more water flows into, than out of, the 
(2) Tournefort, Voy. du Levant, tom. II. Lett.XV. p.404. Lt/on, 1717. 
