Yet a fourth time it clambered up again, and this time it lipped the brink and poured over the intrenchment at the top. |
This steepness was intensified on all sides by an artificial intrenchment which divided the promontory from the mainland. |
The distance from the intrenchment to the ghaut is barely a mile. |
The enclosure now existing has no reference to the outlines of the intrenchment. |
Not one turban was seen between the battlements, not one carabineer's bayonet in the intrenchment. |