TO CAFFA. 
Bosporus, many remains of antient buildings ; 
and the prodigious number of tumuli, every- 
where in view, might be said to resemble the 
appearance exhibited by the nodes upon the 
outside of a pine-apple. About half-way, upon 
the right-hand side of the road, appeared a 
stratum of limestone, hewn in a semicircular 
manner, so as to present an area whose sides 
were thirty feet perpendicular. In the middle of 
this area we found a deep well, hewn in the 
solid rock. The Tahtar peasants assured us, 
that its sides were those of a vast cylinder ot 
marble, buried in the soil ; but it was evidently 
a channel bored through the rock. The work 
must have required great labour, the depth to 
the water being at least fifty feet, without 
including the farther depth of the well : this 
we were unable to ascertain. The Tahtars 
draw water from it, by means of a leathern 
bucket, for their sheep and goats. 
The town of Kertchy, placed upon the site of 
ancient Panticapceum' , is reduced to extreme 
(!) “ Cercum arx. et oppidum Tartarieum Chanorum ditionis 
obscurum et humile admodiim. In ostia (ut Strabo vocat) Maeotidis, 
at ad earn angustiam, quam Bosporum Cimincriuni die cognominat ae 
tumulum Panticapeium et civitatem simul ab eo dietam, situm est. 
Ex adverso oppidi vel arcis di;u, ill ripft alterA angustiar illius, quas 
ampliiis anura imlUare in latitudinem contiuetur. Tamanum arx 
jnunitissima; 
