After a while he handed them to Harry.
The boy raised the glasses and the great panorama of the valley sprang up to his eyes.

It seemed to him that he could almost count the soldiers in the camps.

There was a troop of cavalry riding to the southward, and further to the left was another.

Directly to the north was their battlefield of Kernstown, and not far beyond it lay Winchester.

He saw such masses of the enemy's troops and so many signs of activity among them that he felt some movement must be impending.
"What do you think of it, Harry ?" said Sherburne.
"Banks must be getting ready to move forward." "I think so, too.