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k( ( Ot NT Of rill. ( IIIMI . rattle and eflfc< tl | the whole of the ypace between Hie iaines above- mentioned, from the elevated fronl of the i". k, bi i 'i Bi the MS) fell run wild in tin- hand, of flu- i lent T.iri tr . A da '

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1 1 "in ..I,.- roek to another in at midnight, with a frightful noise, brings roo to the so mm d extolled to the extent neai Ij of two fereta in length, and from 350 to 600 I u thorns in width. This eruption, a li icli continued till the 20th of IV- lu u.i i , made b ditch ten fathoms in depth, in which remained one large and two small parallel banks of the solid rock. In proportion as one |>art of the iteep side became detached from the rock, the whole HMUI pressed in the same propor- tion on its base, and the shore ad- vanced from that lime into the sea, in i circumference of from sixty to eighty toiscs. Jn (he night of the £8th, two slight shocks of an earth- quake were felt, after the water of the rivulet, which had disappeared, began to flow again at the super- ficies, bat ran in a different direc- tion, after forming several lakes and maishv places along the new shore. Besides the two mills lately mentioned, this fall buried in its ruins eight houses, and destroyed whole fields and gardens. " valley ..I B ivdar. < ailed i> tb< tin* the Tani u mean Tempe, « < . 'I his rail <>| an 01 d foi in, about t went miles long, and surrounded bj high n tains, covered with beautiful WO where many kinds of wild fruits, mixed with odoriferous llowering shrubs, adorn the green i w hie h CUt oil all comiuuiii< | I with the world. The innocent in- habitants of this Taoric Arcadia, realize the pleasing dreams of the pastoral poets. M iny o( then never beyond their native moun- tains, and will probably pass the remainder of their harmless lira w ithout ever quitting this quiet and tranquil retreat. A number of Tar- tar villages are most romantically situated in this line vall< . Here you see (heir I USt itucJc as it were against the sides of the mountain, and peeping out ofk tog orchards, then out of irregular clumps of tine trees, planted by na- Thc inhabitants, however, ot aire on the banks of the limpid Kutchakoy have already forgotten streams, that water, as they wind these disasters, and do not appear through, this earthly Elybiura. 1st to think of those which now seem short, it is necessary to visit the to threaten them. .Alter crossing vallej lar, to fcel aU tie the ridge of the mountains, you de- feci* that these objects are calco> scnad into the charming alley oi latcd to produce, when animated by Foras, where nature has, with the the view of flocks, shepherds, and most liberal hand, bestowed the hu.sbaudmen all around rou; the richest verdure im reget it ion ; while the slopes o( the mountains that form its semicircular back (tor its front is open to the sea) ai vered with forests of wikl fruit trees; or, iaother words, with thegardenaof the Greeks and Genoese. -&uiVi red to Sup. Vol. I. latter cultivatiriir their fury ■bode, which well repays their labour with abundant crops, tally adequate to the few wants of these truly pastoral its. The r«>ad from bet Balaklava was made tor the cm- psn H Catharine II. at the 9 M