FROM THE CIRCASSIAN FRONTIER, 
it in regular layers, with coarse terra-cotta vases, 
of rude workmanship, unglazed, and filled with 
a mixture of earth and charcoal *. It is said that 
a large marble soros or sarcophagus, the operculum 
of which now serves for a cistern near the 
fortress of Yenikalc in the Crimea, was taken from 
this tomb. The appearance of the entrance, 
however, in its present state, contradicts the 
story ; as the opening has never yet been made 
sufficiently wide for the removal of such a 
relic, even had it been so discovered. In the 
Vignette to the next Chapter is a representation 
of that part of the sarcophagus at Yenihale to 
which allusion is here made. That it was taken 
from one of the antient tombs of the Bosporus, 
is highly probable 8 ; and its perfect coincidence, 
in point of form, with an invariable model com- 
mon among the sepulchres of Greece, sufficiently 
denotes the people from whom it was derived. 
Similar tombs appear upon all the shores of 
the Bosporus. Close to this now described, 
are many others, and some nearly of equal size. 
Pallas, in his journey over this country, mentions 
the frequency of such appearances around the 
Cl) Travels through the Southern Provinces, &c. vol. II. p.30G. 
(2) Alotraye mentions having seen the lower half of one, between 
Taman and Temiook. Vol. II. p. 40. 
