This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. 4th July.--Land in sight. The hills of the Crimea were perfectly plain, and by mid-day we were steaming into the bay. Some ships were seen at anchor at several points along the coast. Now we are at the Seat of War. The dull booming of a gun is heard in the distance, the top of a hill ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. 4th July.--Land in sight. The hills of the Crimea were perfectly plain, and by mid-day we were steaming into the bay. Some ships were seen at anchor at several points along the coast. Now we are at the Seat of War. The dull booming of a gun is heard in the distance, the top of a hill before us is speckled with white tents, one ship with ports is anchored in the bay, two steamers and a few sailing vessels are tossing about in the same basin--but no other sign of the War that is convulsing Europe. Most astonishing of all, here we in the "Brandon," a little trading screw, a Glasgow and Limerick steamer, are coolly sailing into a harbour of the Crimea, the stronghold of Russia, without the least concern, with less anxiety, to the captain than he would have to berth her at Glasgow. Let people say what they may about our Navy, the safety, nay, the existence of our Army depended on its presence as a blockading force. Of all curious sights to a civilian, this approach to the hostile shore in a little steamer, without saying, By your leave, struck me most. Not that the Russians were driven away, for the tents of the outlying pickets were pointed out to me--but the blockading force was so effectual that the Black Sea was our own. The Bay of Balaclava is a gentle curve--the two points of which are about two miles apart. The whole of this bay is perfectly rock-bound--the cliffs rising perpendicularly out of the water. From the top of these the hills rise into pointed cones, on one of which, in the centre of the bay, stands an old ruined fort--the Castle of Balaclava. The water is very deep in the bay, and even quite close to the rock vessels can scarcely get holding-ground for their anchors. This was the scene of the wreck of the...
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