Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of their great warriors or kings expired, his ashes were placed in the tomb, and every man who admired his virtues carried a portion of earth and threw it over his grave. ' Be this as it may, they certainly have not been formed of earth excavated in the vicinity, which is always perfectly level, and some geologists go so far as to say that the earth of which they are composed is different in its nature from that on which it stands. " However, the idea of a mountain tomb being formed as a tribute of the voluntary admiration of an entire people for a chief whose loss they deplore, is beautiful and affecting. The tradition of the Tartars is not, however, without some foundation in truth, for the cairns of the Scots were erected in a similar manner, and in the north of Scotland an expression of friendship and affection still remains among the people, to this effect: ' I will cast a stone upon thy cairn.'" CHAPTER IV. The Miletian and Heraklian Settlements in the Crimea—The Tumuli near the Theodocian Gate at Kertch—Their Contents—A Particular Description of Two Great Tumuli near Kertch, and of their Contents. The Miletians (lonians) and Heraklians (Dorians), in the seventh century before Christ, planted colonies in the Crimea. The origin of the city of Miletus in Caria, is within the period of the first Greek emigration from home. The place was first settled by natives of the country, to whom came Sarpedon of Miletus, in Crete, and after him Neleus, from Attica. Miletus was already large and flourishing when the cities of the parent country were just beginning to emerge from obscurity. It was already a powerful city when the Lydian monarchs rose into consequence. Almost all the Greek cities along the coast of the Euxine Sea were of Miletian origin. Pliny makes them to ha...