FROM THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS, 
abroad : if the employments of the house admit 
of their sitting down for a short time, they 
begin to spin, or to wind cotton. Yenikale is 
almost wholly inhabited by Greeks. The men 
are for the most part absorbed in mercenary 
speculations ; but the women are gentle, 
humane, obliging, and deserving of the highest 
praise. 
The fortress of Yenikale, whence the place 
has derived its present name 1 , stands upon 
some high cliffs above the town. In one of its 
towers there is a fountain. The source of it 
supplies a conduit on the outside, near the 
base. The stream flows in aqueducts, from a 
spring said by the inhabitants to be four milfes 
distant; and it falls, at the bottom of the 
tower, into the operculum of an antient marble 
Soros, alluded to in the preceding chapter*. 
This Soros is of one entire mass of white marble, 
weighing two or three tons ; it is now used as 
the public washing-trough of the town. They 
relate a story, before mentioned, concerning 
its discovery in one of the tombs of the Isle of 
Taman : it is probably a part of the Soros 
alluded to by Motraye, in the account ot his 
(l) Sec a former Note, p. 98. 
(2) P. 74. 
