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The life of Justinian was spared; the amputation of his nose, perhaps of his tongue, was imperfectly performed: the happy flexibility of the Greek language could impose the name of Rhinotmetus; and the mutilated tyrant was banished to Chersonæ in Crim-Tartary, a lonely settlement, where corn, wine, and oil, were imported as foreign luxuries.
It rises in the province of Resan, in Russia, and flowing through Crim-Tartary, runs into the Maeotic Lake, near a city of the same name, now in ruins Tarcundarius Castor, assists Pompey with three hundred cavalry, C. iii. 4 It stands on the mouth of the river Tulcis, now el Fracoli, with a small haven on the Mediterranean; its inhabitants desert to Caesar, C. i. 21, 60
"Along the course of the little rivers which seamed the ground, there were villages and narrow belts of tilled land, with gardens and fruitful vineyards; but for the most part this neglected Crim-Tartary was a wilderness of steppe or of mountain-range, much clothed towards the west with tall stiff grasses, and the stems of a fragrant herb like southernwood.
"The beginning, end, and middle of social life in England, as in Crim-Tartary, is worship of the longest pigtail, a fetichism sometimes grosser, sometimes subtler, sometimes deliberate, often unconscious and instinctive.
What do they mean by importing their methods of Crim-Tartary here? A Turk would have more decency.” “You forget, Sir Ethelred, that strictly speaking we know nothing positively—as yet.” “No! But how would you define it? Shortly?” “Barefaced audacity amounting to childishness of a peculiar sort.”
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