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EUROPEAN AND ASIATIC SHORES 
CHAP. 
XV. 
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Antiqui- 
ties. 
If the commerce of Taganrog should experience 
any considerable increase, we may reasonably 
conclude, from the present view of its inhabi- 
tants, that almost every nation upon earth will 
have its agent there. 
The shpres of the Sea of Azof, from the com- 
merce carried on by the Antient Greeks in the 
Euxine and in the Talus Maoris, bring the tra- 
veller so near to what may be deemed classic 
land, that an inquiry after antiquities ought not 
to be neglected. We did not hear, however, 
of any thing worthy of notice. Tumuli abound 
in all the steppes ; and in working the cliffs for 
the establishment of a magazine or store-house, 
where one of those tumuli had been raised, in a 
loose sandy soil, they had found an arched 
vault, shaped like an oven, constructed of very 
large square bricks, and paved, in a style of 
most exquisite workmanship, with the same 
materials. If any thing were discovered by the 
workmen who made this excavation, it was 
concealed ; for they pretended that its contents 
were unobserved or disregarded. In all proba- 
food. They extend from Marinopol to Pereeop, along the coast of the 
Sea of Zabasche. Their tents differ from those of the ( almueks, as, 
being more clumsy and uever taken to pieces, they are carried about 
on cars. This usage they seem to havjc borrowed from the primitive 
Scythian population. The Nagay tribes train their camels to the 
yoke, for which they are ill qualified, and which practice is unknown 
among all the Mogul tribes in Asia,** Heber’s MS. Journal. 
