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THE BATTLU OF BALACLAVA.

two narrow valleys. So completely has this range chap. of heights bridged over the plain, that it served ' as a natural viaduct, enabling the designer of the Woronzoff road to carry his trace - line across from the Kamara Hills on the east to the Cher- BLACK SEA sonese uplands on the west without letting it ever descend to the general level of the ground which had to be traversed ; and therefore it is that the features which constitute this ridge are dis- tinguished as the ' Causeway Heights.' vol. v. c