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THE MAIN FIGHT. 75 caJled St George's Brow, but niiLdit do this in chap. • • VI peace without trespassing, as it were, out of liis ' own ground, without having to drive in one picket, — nay even, if fortune shouhl smile, without being observed by our outposts. The Careenage liavine, though forbiddingly Road along 1 J , 1 1 • , 1 1 1 the channel nard to cross, could with much more ease be of the ascended ; and there was a cart-road which went KavinT^ up along its bed, past the Mikriakoff Farm to the junction of the two gully channels which meet under Quarter - guard Point. There, the road turning off from the Well -way (which leads straight up to the Isthmus) bent away into the other or more westerly channel, and thence gained the Victoria liidge at a spot not far distant from General Codrington's tents. The Russians, however, were scarce under temptation to adventure their artillery in the depths of this Careenage Eavine, and no infantry which might attempt to ascend it could advance upon an ex- tended front. 11. Irrespectively of the troops with which the Fixed bat- enemy proposed to march upon Mount Inker- swpby man, he had some resources prepared beforehand, Russian which could not but strengthen the ground for be aided in him on the day of his enterprise. His guns near the Lighthouse might prove indeed, it is true, to be rather molesting than formidable ; and the Mala- koff, with all its armament, might help him only a little by taking a blind part in the fight ; but