Towards evening only, as I approached the Bosphorus, my curiosity was strongly excited by the singular indentations which the steppe exhibited along the line of the horizon, and soon afterwards I found myself in the midst of one of the chief Necropolises of the ancient Milesian city.
"Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c."
Xavier Hommaire de Hell