230 TIIK ALUKS SnTI^■G DOWX CHAP. Liiouud which I'ljiined the iiurth-easteiii an<;Ie of IX . U the Chersonese. Tliis part of the Heights, so to speak, has been almost chipped off from the rest of the table-land by the deep Careenage ravine ; and it is only by an isthmus or neck of high land that the triangular quoin tlius formed re- mains joined to the bulk of the Chersonese. Kussian nomenclators would have ns speak otherwise ; but so long as the thoughts of man- kind shall brood over that tract of low coi)se- wood, the English, at least, if not others, will give it the name of ' Inkerman.' * Our people watched and guaided IMount Inker- man ; but, to occupy it, they did not undertake, for want of sufficing numbers. From those dispositions it resulted that, whilst Forey's corps had only to do with the siege, and Bosquet's had nothing to do except to defend a part of the ridge, the English were so posted as to have cast upon them the double duty of carrying on the siege and also defending the Chersonese at its most assailable point. Bii Joiiu Sir John Burjroyne pressed earnestly for a }{ai-oy lie's , ^, ^-^ ^ , n,^i vaiu rf-pre. change of thcsc arrangements, and urged that, by placing a powerful reserve in an advanced position upon this part of the ground, and thence pushing
- According to the geograpliical iioiiuiiiclature prevailing
before the war, and still adopted by the Russians, the ' Inker- ' man ' Heights were on the other side of the Tchernaya, being those which descended from the region of the lighthouses and the adjoining highlands ; but I have avoided in the text every such a])plication of the word ' Inkerman,' as tending to uusetllo and confuse the impressions of Englishnieu. boutatious.
