20 FROM THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS, 
chap, inscription found here: from these documents 
IIL / they were published by the Professor, but 
without any illustration , the world having lost, 
in Mr. Tiueddelf s untimely death, and the sub- 
sequent disappearance of his journals at Con- 
stantinople, in 1799, as yet unexplained', all the 
information his great acquirements enabled him 
to afford. Upon the bas-reliefs of the Bosporus, 
the remarkable representation of an equestrian 
figure, attended by a youth, is so often re- 
peated, that it ought not to pass without 
observation: it has hitherto received no illus- 
tration 4 . Perhaps a passage in Herodotus may 
throw some light upon the subject. He relates, 
that the Scythians killed their slaves and finest 
horses, and, after taking out their entrails, 
stuffed them with straw, and set them up, as 
equestrian figures, in honour of their kings 1 2 3 . 
(1) Since this was written, Mr. Tweddell’s brother, in a work 
entitled “ Remains of the late John Tweddell," has succeeded in 
completely developing the whole of this mysterious transaction. To 
the surprise aud indignation of all literary men (excepting those who 
were engaged in the transaction!, it now appears, that a copy of 
Mr. J. Tweddell' s Grecian Journal was purloined front the original, 
by persons to whose care and honour it had been confided ; but that 
neither the copy nor tiie original are likely to appear before the public, 
with Mr. TU’cddeWs own name to his productions. 
(2) A similar figure is preserved among the Cambridge Marbles. 
Sec the Account published at the University Press , 1808. octavo, pp. 4, 5. 
(3) Ilerodot. Melp. 72. 
