ON THE BLACK SEA AND SEA OF AZOF: BEING A NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS IN THE CRIMEA AND BORDERING PROVINCES; WITH NOTICES OF THE NAVAL, MILITARY, AND COMMERCIAL BY H. D. SEYMOUR, M.P. WITH MAP, &c. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1855. The right of Translation is reserved. 812489-140 PREFACE. It was THE following work is partly the result of my own Having paid one visit to the Crimea in the year 1844, and two visits to Southern Russia in 1844 and 1846, I have been able to correct and verify the descriptive parts of the book by my own experience. The careful work of M. Dubois de Montpereux" has been my principal guide on geology, archæology, and ancient history, and from his magnificent atlas I have borrowed a few illustrations. I have abstracted from the 'Etudes sur la a Voyage autour du Caucase, par Frédéric Dubois de Montpereux. 6 vols. with an Atlas. Paris, 1839. |