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

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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P. S. [By the Editor.] It is with pleafure I fee that one of the --greateft wants of this city is in a fair way of being removed ; I mean the want of fuel; fince coal has been difcovered in fuch a fituation as to be conveyed by water to Nicolayef at a moderate price, more efpecially if government and merchant-veffels take it in as ballad in their voyages to the fea of Azof, as it comes down the Donetz and Don to the city of that name. Mrs. G. wrote in winter the following note : “ I am now fitting at a cheerful fire made with the very coals « mentioned in my fecond letter in fummer.’' LETTER III. From Nicolayaf. This new city is fituated, as already faid, literally in the Wilds of Scythia (or Tartary, if you like the modern better than the an- cient name) ; for it is furrounded on all fides by dreary open deferts, which only differ from thofe of Arabia in being covered with grafs inftead of fand; while both are inhabited in all ages by roving hordes of horfemen, which refemble one another in difpofition and mode of life ; in a word, the fhepherds of holy writ, ready at all times, if able, to over-run and plunder men aflembled in civil fo* ciety, living peaceably and comfortably in fixed habitations. The power, however, of the Turkifh and Ruffian Empires has kept them within bounds for ages, and made it their intereft to live in peace with their warlike neighbours ; as they are then fure not to be C m defied

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