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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INTRODU CTION. TlIE Letters compofing this Volume were addrefled to the Editor in St. Peteilburg, by his Lady while on a Tour through the Southern provinces of Ruffia for the recovery of her health : alas ! of little avail; as before they appear hie has paid the debt of nature, and deprived her family and fociety of an amiable, accomplifhed, and virtuous member.. The fair Traveller, well knowing that her hufband had been collecting information refpedting the countries which flie was vifiting, ever fince a journey that he made in that direction many years ago, and had kept up a correfpondence with the moll intelligent officers on that flation, deflred that he would add to her modern defcription of each city, &c. its antient hiftory in the times of the Greeks, Romans, Goths, Genoefe, Venetians, Tartars, &c. This talk he undertook the more readily, as it was exactly the part of the new Work which would connect it with another that he publifhed here in French in 1795 (treating of the moral antiquities of the old dominions of Ruffia), and demonftrate, that the natives might have acquired all the Grecian rites, cuftoms, &c. in ffiort, all the firiking analogies pointed out in his “Nodes Rofficas,” in the fame graffy plains where they antiently ranged with their flocks and herds.:;

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