TO THE HERACLEOTIC CHERSONESUS. 
some believe the town to have derived its pre- 
sent name. Others, perhaps with more reason, 
suppose the name to have had a Genoese origin; 
and they derive it from Bella Clava, the Beau- 
tiful Port. Its harbour was the IYMBOARN 
AIMHN, Portus Symbolorum ; whose entrance 
Strabo so characteristically describes 1 2 . N othing 
can exceed the fidelity with which he has 
designated the coasts of the Crimea ; a circum- 
stance perhaps owing to the vicinity of his 
native country; the situation of Amasia enabling 
him to acquire a familiar knowledge of the shores 
of the Euxine. In his account of the Archipelago 
and of the Mediterranean, although always an 
accurate writer, he does not evince an equal 
degree of precision. According to him, the 
port of Balaclava, together with the Ctenus, or 
harbour of Inkerman, constituted by their ap- 
proach an isthmus of forty stadia, or five miles : 
this, with a wall, fenced-in the Minor Pen- 
insula, having within it the city of Chersonesus ®. 
The wall we afterwards found, in an excursion 
with Professor Pallas; and its extent corre- 
sponded with Strabo's account. 
(1) “ K*i [itr aMv, rntirrifti;. Et post hanc, portus angusto 
introitu.'’ Strab. lib.m. p. 446. ed. Oxtm. 
(2) Ibid. 
