CHAP. III. 
FROM THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS, TO CAFFA. 
Passage across the Straits — Yemkale' — Modern Greeks 
— Marble Soros — Singular anlient Sepulchre — Pharos 
of Mithradates — Medals of the Bosporus — Ruins — 
Kertchy — Tomb of Mithradates— View of the Cim- 
merian Straits — Antiquities of Kertchy —Account of a 
Stranger who died there — Fortress — Church — Havoc 
made by the Russians — Cause of the obscurity involving 
the antient Topography of the Crimea — Departure from 
Kertchy — Antient Vallum — Locusts — Venomous Insects 
• — Gipsies — Cattle — Tahtars — Vallum of Asander 
— Arrival at Caffa. 
We sailed from Taman on the 12th of July. 
The distance to YenikaJf on the opposite shore, 
CHAP. 
III. 
