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
RESOURCES OF THOSE COUNTRIES.

BY H. D. SEYMOUR, M.P.

WITH MAP, &c.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1855.

The right of Translation is reserved.

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PREFACE.

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THE following work is partly the result of my own
personal observation, and partly a compilation from
some of the most approved authors who have written
on the Crimea and the resources of Russia.
prepared for the press during last winter, and the pub-
lication of it has been retarded by the attention which,
for the last few months, I have been obliged to bestow
on other matters. As the Crimea is still an object of
deep interest, and as I am not aware that the notices
I have collected have yet been presented to the public in
a succinct form, I hope by the following pages that I
may help to satisfy public curiosity and add something
to the stock of information which we possess respecting
the Southern parts of European Russia.

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.