THE MAIN FIGHT. 69 The jjart of the hill facing northward reaches chap. all along the front of the ground where our 2d __Z^_ Division lay camped on the morning of the battle, ll',l"l. and is called the Home Eidge. Having its west- ernmost slope at a distance of about 300 yards from the steeps of the Careenage Eavine, this ridge passes thence to the eastward, and culmi- nates at the bend of the hill. With the bend counted in as a part of it, the crest of this Home Eidge has a front of about 650 yards, which looks down obliquely along the Saddle-top Eeach ; and its reverse slopes descending upon what was the camping-ground of our 2d Division face back in a southerly direction towards the entrance of the Isthmus. In the direction of its left front, this covered Home Eidge is covered by the Mikriakoff Spur, left ffout ' a projection of high, commanding ground more Miknakofi than half a mile long, which divides the Mikria- ^'^' koff Glen from the Careenage Eaviue. The other part of the hill is called the Fore The Fore Eidge. Fronting as it does towards the west, this ^"^^^' Fore Eidge looks down slantwise across the Saddle-top Eeach ; and its reverse slopes descend- ing eastward, bend down to the brow of the steeps overhanging the Inkerman marsh. At its north- ern extremity, the Fore Eidge is called the Mount Head ; * and it there stands so forward as to be closely overlooking the entrance of the Quarry Eavine.
- Its height above the sea-level is 636 feet. This was in
later days the site of the strong redoubt thrown up by the French.
