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 -  The province here mentioned is the Crimea; the Taurica
    Chersonesus of the ancients, or the modern Taurida. - E.

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The Province Here Mentioned Is The Crimea; The Taurica Chersonesus Of The Ancients, Or The Modern Taurida.

- E.

[3] At the mouth of one of the branches of the Kuban is the town of Temruck, formerly called Tmutrakhan by the Russians, and Tamatarcha by the Greeks; this has been corrupted to Tamaterca, Materca, and Matriga. - Forst.

[4] This obviously refers to the canal of communication between the sea of Azoph and the Euxine. - E.

[5] Called likewise Soldeya, Soldadia and Sogdat, now Sudak. - E.

[6] Sartach was the son of Baatu-khan. - E.

[7] This name is probably meant to imply the Trucheman, Dragoman, or interpreter; and from the strange appellative, Man of God, he may have been a monk from Constantinople, with a Greek name, having that signification: perhaps Theander - E.

[8] Cherson or Kersona, called likewise Scherson, Schursi, and Gurzi. - E.

[9] These castles of the Goths, first mentioned by Rubruquis, were afterwards noticed by Josaphat Barbaro, a Venetian, in 1436; and Busbeck conversed with some of these Goths from the Crimea at Constantinople in 1562, and gives a vocabulary of their language. From the authority of Rubruquis misunderstood, some ancient map makers have inserted the Castella Judeorum instead of Gothorum in the Crimea, and even Danville placed them in his maps under the name of Chateaux des Juifs, castles of the Jews. - Forst.

SECTION II.

Of the Tartars and their Houses.

They have no permanent city, and they are ignorant of the future. They divide all Scythia among them; and each leader, according to the number of his followers, knows the boundaries of his pastures, and where he ought to feed his flocks in winter and summer, and in spring and autumn.

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