A tour performed in the years 1795-6 through the Taurida, or Crimea, the ancient kingdom of Bosphorus, the once-powerful republic of Tauric Cherson, and all the other countries on the north shore of the Euxine, ceded to Russia by the peace of Kainardgi and Jassy / By Mrs. Maria Guthrie ... described in a series of letters to her husband, the editor, Matthew Guthrie, M.D. The whole illustrated by a map ... with engravings of a great number of ancient coins, medals, monuments, inscriptions, and other curious objects.
- Guthrie, Maria.
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A tour performed in the years 1795-6 through the Taurida, or Crimea, the ancient kingdom of Bosphorus, the once-powerful republic of Tauric Cherson, and all the other countries on the north shore of the Euxine, ceded to Russia by the peace of Kainardgi and Jassy / By Mrs. Maria Guthrie ... described in a series of letters to her husband, the editor, Matthew Guthrie, M.D. The whole illustrated by a map ... with engravings of a great number of ancient coins, medals, monuments, inscriptions, and other curious objects. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![repaired fome of the antient, fuch as JEa, the capital of the unhappy King of Colchis, the- viftim of the Argonautic expedition, and Cyta, the birth-place of his daughter Medea. Laftly, flie fliows the probability of the Egyptians having left a colony in Colchis, at the fame time that they planted one in Greece, and rode triumphant in the Euxine ; and hazards a conjecture on the origin of the ftory of the Amazons p.]0-e LETTER LXXX. The Mithridatic conqueft of the Greek colonies on the Euxine, with a flight fketch of the; military career of that Afiatic hero -252 LETTER LXXXT. The Roman conqueft of the Euxine colonies, by I.ucullus, Poinpey, and Julius Caefar. The addition made to them by the conquells of Trajan, reftored to the Scythians by the oecdnomicar and politic Adrian. The Author fliows to whom we owe our knowledge of the antient geography of thofe countries 255 LETTER LXXXII. * She next fliews, that the Venetians, by aflifting the Latins to mount the throne of Con- ftantiuople, became the moil favoured mercantile nation, and monopolized the Euxine commerce. She then gives the names of tlieir fettlements on that lea, &c.; but theGenoefe in turn fupplant them by the fame arts that raifed the Venetians to the dominion of the Euxine, and acquire extraordinary privileges from the grateful Michael Paloeologus, whom they aftifted to recover his throne. They then rebuild Theodocia, and obtain a charter of privileges from the Chan of Kozaria (as the Taurida was then called) for their city, under its new name of Caftaj which they artfully and fccretly fortify in order to become independent of the fovereign 238 LETTER LXXXIII. The Genoefe now acquire fo great an afccndance in Kozaria, as to become umpires in all dilputes among the princes of the blood, and even to influence the elediion of the Chan y till, grown giddy with excefs of profperity, they fet the power of the Chan at defiance and, after infulting him, laugh at his vengeance behind their fortified walls, till they alarm by their infolence and pride the other nations on the fliores of the Euxine, who attack their Genoefe fettlements in Afia Minor, and are next flying to the aid of the injured prince, when the republicans are moft rniraciiloufly delivered from their critical fituation by the arms of Gengis Chan 261. LETTER LXXXIV.. The Genoefe, though delivered in fo unexpected a manner from the imminent danger to which their wanton ufurpation had expofed them, fall into a ftill greater 150 years afterwards, hy the very fame tyrannic conduct. Fortune, however, did not befriend them a fccond time ; for, the infulted Tartars calling in the powerful aid of the Turkith conqueror Mahomet II. their proud city was attacked and taken, and the infolent inhabitants of Caffa carried into Turkifh:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22010506_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
