Many of these holes are as round and as cleanly cut as if they had been made with an auger.

Others are half pierced through, and the clean impression is there in the rock, as smooth and as shapely as if it were done in putty.

Here and there a ball still sticks in a wall, and from it iron tears trickle down and discolor the stone.
The battle-fields were pretty close together.

The Malakoff tower is on a hill which is right in the edge of the town.

The Redan was within rifle-shot of the Malakoff; Inkerman was a mile away; and Balaklava removed but an hour's ride.