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CHAP. VI.

thus two parallel roads running each very near to the other by which an assailant might move up his columns through the Quarry Kavine to the open topland above.^[1]

The Sappers Road: But on the outbreak of the war, Prince Mentschi- koff made haste to connect the Karabel Faubourg with Inkerraan Bridge by a work called the 'Sapper's Road; and — as though he had caught a dim foresight of what afterwards proved to be needed for the enterprise of the 5th of November — he so shaped his new line of route as to make it — not merely a link between the east and the west, but—also a means of affording two metalled ways of ascent home up to the spine of Mount Inkerman. So, if meaning to use the new work for that last purpose, a general would regard it as comprising two roads, which having come, one from the faubourg and the other from Inkerman Bridge, meet each other on the crest of the Mount. its western moiety—i.e. the west Sapper's Road; One moiety of the new highway, that is, the West Sapper's Road, after leaving the faubourg, and crossing — by a viaduct — the great Careenage Road; Kavine, winds on into a gorge, and climbs up betwixt its banks to the height called St George's Brow. its eastern moitey —i.e. he East Sapper's Road. There, it is met at an angle by the other half of Prince Meutschikoff's work, that is, by the East Sapper's Road, which, after having parted from the Post-road near Inkerman Bridge, and made its way westward for more than a mile