THE MAIN FIGHT. 65 where English is spoken, the steadfast name of chap. Inkerman.* ' lu shape, this Mount Inkerman is like the stock of a gun ; "f* and, having the butt-end turned northwards, it there shows a breadth of about two miles and a quarter ; but in trending towards its southern extremity the ground so narrows away that, even with the abutting steeps on either side, the isthmus — if so one may call it — has a diameter of only about six furlongs, and the up- wold, or high level part of the neck, is scarce 400 yards across. Measured from Cape Troitsky to the head of the Well-way — the more easterly of the two highest dells which feed the Careenage Ilavine — the length of Mount Inkerman falls little short of three miles. Though in most places steep, the sides of the mount have been riven by numbers of l)reaks, which more or less ease the ascent ; and, indeed,
- Wliat the Russians call the 'Inkerman Heights' are those
overlooking the ruins from the opposite or northern side of the river and called, ante, p. 20, the ' Old City Heights. ' In their nomenclature, our 'Mount Inkerman' is merely a part of the 'Sapounfe Heights.' + See Plate II., and also this diagram : Cape Troitsky. 2J miles. Isthmus. VOL. VI.
