He went through three or four small villages.

After passing through the Gap, he had taken the railroad, as less likely to lead him through the more thickly settled parts of the country.

Before him the mountains of the Blue Ridge rose like an impassable wall, and when the day dawned he was approaching Manassas Gap.

He had walked twenty-five miles during the night, and prudence, as well as fatigue, required him to seek a place of rest..