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DEPARTURE FROM MSKETT. 
people, are silent but decisive evidences of where those people 
have been. But, more than this, with regard to the spot of 
my present argument, Dr. Reniggs mentions, that during his 
stay in Georgia, he was told, that in the northern castle at 
Mskett a stone had been found, bearing the Greek inscription, 
[AKPOSTOnOAlE] Acrostopolis. He adds, that all the Geor¬ 
gian historians, as well as other learned writers, speak of Mskett 
as the most ancient city of the kingdom ; testifying that it was 
in a very flourishing state, even so far back as when these regions 
first embraced Christianity; and before that, we find it may 
have been a garrison of importance. According to D’Anville, 
the city of Harmozica (the Harmastis of Pliny, and the Arta- 
nissa of Ptolemy) was situated on the Kur, just at its junction 
with the Aragua ; while the town of Teumara occupied the banks 
of the latter river, at no great distance from Harmozica. 
About eleven o’clock on the morning of October the 12th, 
(O. &), we left this interesting old capital; and, having pro¬ 
ceeded along the northern bank of the Kur, for about a werst, 
crossed the river at the bridge I described before, as being- 
situated between the two lofty Roman towers. Nothing of the 
ancient structure of this bridge remains, excepting the stone¬ 
work from which sprung the arches. The arches gone, the 
massy pillars which supported them, are now connected by a 
sort of wood platform, over which travellers pass, and under 
which the river rolls in a dark and turbulent stream. On 
gaining its southern bank, we pursued our way in a parallel 
direction with the road we had just quitted, till reaching the 
foot of the hills where the confluence of the two rivers takes 
place, and then our course ran with the united stream due 
south. But it was a curious and a fine spectacle, to behold 
