A tour, performed in the years 1795-6, through the Taurida, or Crimea, the antient 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; (1802)
Guthrie, Maria, Guthrie, Matthew, d. 1807 · London : T. Cadell, jun. & W. Davies · leaf 140
their fovereigns), has left us one of his coins, given in tiie margin, and whicliI fhall cJefcribe here. Obvcrfe : The head of Pharnacesencircled with a diadem. Rfvcrfe : x^pollo fitting and holdinga branch of a tree in his right hand ;while his left is leaning on his lyre, anda tripod is {landing… … Xlllth King. — ASANDER.(In the 7o6/Z> of Rome, and \%th before Chrljl.) The next fovereign of the Bofphorus, whofe coins have come down to us, isJfander, whom Pharnaces left to command in the Bofphorus, while ].e himfelftook charge of his other kingdom of Pontus, likewife given to the parricide…
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