This view is taken from the Woronzoff Road, about a mile and a half from Sebastopol, looking a point or so south of east. " By placing," says Mr. Simpson, "the view of the Fourth Division on the. right of this one, and the Third to the right of it again, you will have a slight panorama of the camp upon the heights. The foregrounds are all diiferent, being from different localities, but the distance of each is partly repeated in the other." The ridge in the foreground, on which two English soldiers are conversing with a Zouave, and some goats and a sheep are browsing, leads up to the picket-house, and the ridge immediately beyond it, to the Victoria Redoubt; beyond this again are the Heights of Inkermann, where the Second Division was encamped prior to the 5th November. Beyond Inkermann to the right is Mackenzie's farm, above which in the far distance towers the colossal form of the Tchatir Dagh, the highest mountain in the Crimea. Following the lower range of heights to a point somewhat beyond the centre of the drawing, the eye catches the opening of the Baidar Valley, the romantic beauty of whose scenery has been the favourite topic of almost every tourist in this country. The different regiments, whose camps fill the centre of the picture, and extend from the extreme left to the Woronzoff Road, are in this order — the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade; the 33rd regiment; the right wing of the 7th; the 23rd; the 97th; Siege Train, right attack; 19th regiment; left wing of the 19th; the 83rd, drawn up in line; the 90th; and the 77th.
Mr. Simpson describes the principal features of this drawing, and the circumstances under which it was taken, as follows: —
" As the point from which I took this gave a very pretty peep of Sebastopol, I extended my drawing on the right to include it. I was still further tempted to do this, as it shows a road which must be too familiar to every one in the Third Division, leading into the trenches of the English left attack. You also see the priucipal part of Chapman's Battery. The storm which I have introduced occurred while I was sketching, and I had to finish my work in one of the tents of the 63rd.
" The rain came down obscuring the horizon, and casting a black shadow over the water, so that Sebastopol came out clear and white. I have introduced a relief going down to the trenches. As you pass through the camp now you are sure to find the men at the game I have shown in the foreground, and which is the more characteristic from its being played with cannon -balls. The green and blue tents are canteens. This view shows all the ground occupied by the Third Division through the winter."
For the satisfaction of those to whom these camps are associated, either in the past or in the present, with the absent living or the unforgotten dead, we will endeavour, as we have done in the three preceding views, to trace out here as accurately as possible the exact position occupied by each regiment of the division. The first row of tents then on the extreme left * are those of the 17th regiment; the next cluster to the right, with the two parallel rows beyond them, belong to the 89th; parallel to these again are the 38th; still more to the right and in the middle distance the 28th and the 44th, over whose tents there is just a glimpse of Kamiesch, with its bay and shipping; the huts immediately next to the 38th are those of the
* It should be remarked that in these descriptions, unless it be othern'ise specified, the terms "left" and "right" refer to the position of the spectator.
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Engineer department; behind which are the tents of the 50th; to the right again and somewhat in advance, the park of the Royal Artillery; next to these and still more forward are the Sappers; and farther back again and still to the right, the 1st Battalion of the Royals. The 4th regiment are in the last camp to the left of the Flagstaff Battery, where a puff of smoke announces that a gun has been just fired. Then comes Sebastopol itself, with Chapman's Battery, before referred to, in front of it; the view terminating on the right with a portion of the Redan.