BATTLE OF THE ALMA. 245 tliscliarged from the knoll, but from some of chap, Franklin's guns then newly established in battery u])on a spur overlooking the Pass.* But now, when he looked to his right — when he looked slantwise down to the east of where the Cold- stream stood ranged — he saw an array of tall plumes, having eight times the front of one of his own battalion columns ; looking a little farther eastward, he saw another array which, though it was not yet so near, was like to the first, and was moving. Again, when he looked still farther eastward, he saw yet another array coming up, and though it was less near than the first, and even less near than the second, it was like to either of them in the greatness of its front and the towering plumes of the men. Kvetzinski could see that, taken together, these three lines of plumed soldiers had a front some twenty times broader than one of his battalion columns, and (still, it seems, suffering himself to infer vast numbers from mere extent of front) he began to have that torturing sense of being outnumbered and outflanked which weighed upon the memory and for ever replenished the diction of the warlike Psalmist. It seemed to him that the enemy ' in- ' creased upon him to trouble him ; ' that ' the
- I rest this belief entirely upon the authority of Colonel
Hamley's soldierly narrative, 'The Campaign of Sebastopol,' p. 3L Colonel Hamley was himself in the Artillery, and all that he says respecting the operations of the arm to which he belonged has, of course, a peculiar value. The guns were some of those thirty pieces of ordnance which Evans and Sir Kichard England had just brought into the Pass. — Note to st Edition.
