By the side of the road from BalakUiva to the front there are two graveyards filled with slabs and with monuments in cut stone, one erected by the Army Works Corps to their own officers and men who died here; the other, the work of the same corps, in memory of the officers and men of the Land Transport Corps who fell by sickness in the Crimea. In the plain below the site of the Tm-kish camp, near headquarters, stands a solitary grave. It is enclosed by a substantial stone wall, and the head is marked by a handsome slab of oolite, or white sandstone, with an ornamental carving above an incised cross. On the body of the stone is engraved — " Sacred to the memory of Colonel Balfour Ogilby, who died July 12th, 1855. — This stone was erected as a mark of respect by his brother officers." Such isolated records are not uncommon.
Poor Ogilby! I travelled with him to the East when he came out in February, 1854, to seek service in the Turkish army under his friend Colonel Cannon, and I soon heard of his distinguishing himself at Silistria, and subsequently of his gallant behaviour at Eupatoria. While the Turkish army was lying inactively on the hills near Lord Raglan's quarters, he sickened and died just at the very time that Omar Pasha had triumphed over the scruples and objections of the allied generals to the removal of his troops to Kutais. The burial-ground of the non-commissioned officers and men of the Brigade of Guards is enclosed by a substantial wall. It is entered by a handsome double gate, Ingeniously constructed of wood, and Iron hoops hammered out straight, and painted, which Is hinged on two massive pillars of cut stone, with ornamental capitals, each surmounted by* a cannon ball.
There are six rows of graves, each row containing thirty or more bodies. Over each of these is either a tomb-stone or a mound, fenced in by rows of white stones, with the Initials or sometimes the name of him who lies below, marked on the mould by means of pebbles. Facing the gate, and close to It stands a large stone ci'oss, erected on a series of four massive blocks of the same material. On the west face of the block supporting the cross are the words — " Grenadiers, Coldstreams, Scots Fusilier Guards, A.D. 185G." On the opposite face Is the following inscription — " To the memory of the non-commissioned officers and men of the brigade of Guards, who fell in the Crimea, this cross was erected by their surviving comrades, a.d. 1856." There are but few monumental stones in this cemetery; one is a stone cross, with tlie inscription, " Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant A.
Hill, 22nd Kegiment, who died June 21, 1855. This stone was erected by his friends in the Crimea." Another is " In memory of Sei-geant-Major Rennie, 93rd Highlanders. Erected by a friend." A third is " Sacred to the memory of Sergeant George Mancor. Erected by a friend." A fourth is to " Quartermaster J. SI'Donald, 72ud Regiment, who died, on the IGth of September, from a wound received in the trenches before Sebastopol on the 8th of September, aged thirty-five years." The little tour made by Major Hanimersley, Captain Brooke, and Mr. Sinclair in the north of the Crimea only demonstrated, more cleai-ly the enormous difficulties experienced by our enemies in maintaining their position. It did more; it satisfied every one who heard their confii-mation of previous details, that if the allies had advanced after the 8th of September, and followed the enemy, supposing they retreated, or forced their position and defeated them in case they stood, the whole Russian army of the South must have surrendered prisoners of war, and that Cherson, Berislaff, Nicholaieff", and Odessa would have been seriously menaced.
All the north side, its guns, its garrison, all the materiel, all the pi'ovisions and magazines of Eakshiserai and Simpheropol, must have fallen into our hands, and about 60,0(30 or 70,000 men. " But why so?" some one will ask " Could they not have got away?" Most certainly not. There are but two outlets from the Crimea; the first is by the isthmus at Perekop, the second is by the bridge over the Putrid Sea at Tchongar. The approach to these outlets lies over waterless, foodless plateaux, broken up by deep salt lakes. The welis, which yield a scanty supply of disagreeable water, are profound pits, of which the shallowest is 100 feet, and many are as deep as 150 to 250 feet.