. Battlefields of the World War, western and southern fronts; a study in military geography . v * T3 T3 IRSSLA* x , 220 BATTLEFIELD OF THE MARNE. 7! m £ cd cd .3 O PARIS BASIN 221 Let our traveler climb to the crest of the escarpment at someconvenient point and he can seize in an instant the remarkablecontrast between the two regions. Looking westward over theplateau, the eye sweeps an expanse of flat upland where fieldsof grain are frequently interspersed with areas of and there the woods merge into a vast forest stretchingfor miles to the level horizon. It is a pleasing
. Battlefields of the World War, western and southern fronts; a study in military geography . v * T3 T3 IRSSLA* x , 220 BATTLEFIELD OF THE MARNE. 7! m £ cd cd .3 O PARIS BASIN 221 Let our traveler climb to the crest of the escarpment at someconvenient point and he can seize in an instant the remarkablecontrast between the two regions. Looking westward over theplateau, the eye sweeps an expanse of flat upland where fieldsof grain are frequently interspersed with areas of and there the woods merge into a vast forest stretchingfor miles to the level horizon. It is a pleasing landscape, verdantand smiling under a summer sun yet seemingly lonely in itsbroad stretches of little-inhabited upland. At first one has theimpression that the even surface is unbroken by any topographicaccidents, as the inevitable results of immutable laws in opera-tion are unwittingly called. But a searching of the horizon re-veals a low east-west ridge in the dim distance, rising a few hun-dred feet higher and promising better views of the plateau sur-face if one could reach it. A short walk brings one to the marginof a valley, sharply
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