. The life and opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier. H XY. PERIOD IV.—CUTCHEE EOCKS. to move from one part to another by swinging their cattledown rocks and hauling them up others with ropes, shewingthe rough nature of the ground. There was abundance ofwater inside, and a mineral spring, hot yet good for drink-ing, issued ffom the southern entrance; but it was not forus, being commanded by the enemys fire from the over-hanging rocks. The supply of water for my troops wastherefore difficult, so it was with provisions; and as for shoes,the men and horses had marched day and night ov
. The life and opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier. H XY. PERIOD IV.—CUTCHEE EOCKS. to move from one part to another by swinging their cattledown rocks and hauling them up others with ropes, shewingthe rough nature of the ground. There was abundance ofwater inside, and a mineral spring, hot yet good for drink-ing, issued ffom the southern entrance; but it was not forus, being commanded by the enemys fire from the over-hanging rocks. The supply of water for my troops wastherefore difficult, so it was with provisions; and as for shoes,the men and horses had marched day and night over , without any of those terrible hardships which de-stroy whole armies at once, the foice which operated in theCutchee hills had as much of troubles and of pains as couldwell be without destruction; and the cheerful spirit withwhich all was borne sufficiently indicated that they were re-solved to encounter any danger or difficulty. My plan for storming this natural fortress, if DeriahKhans surrender had not disconcerted the defence, The entrance f is approached by crossing a rocky valleyparallel to the high rocks of the bason, and itself difficult toget into from the loose stones heaped about. It was perhaps800 yards wide, and the screen of rocks forming it, in oppo- 270 LIFE OF CHARLES JAMES NAPIER. [1845. sition to the Trukkee precipices, is, though lower than them,about COO feet high. These two walls of rock run parallelto each other for about twenty-hve miles westward, but theTrukkee rocks are prolonged eastward to Shore, presentingaltogether fifty miles of crags. In the narrow valley a mortar battery and one of fieldguns were to be placed at e. The last to play on the en-trance F, the mortars to throw shells upon g, which woulddrive away the men perched on landing-places to cast downrocks : these shells would also have cast down stones, andsome have fallen into the entrance before bursting. The in-fantry in line were to have formed on the left of E
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