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The Caged Lion (Hardcover)
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The Caged Lion (Hardcover)
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A master hand has so often described the glens and ravines of
Scotland, that it seems vain and presumptuous to meddle with them;
and yet we must ask our readers to figure to themselves a sharp
cleft sloping downwards to a brawling mountain stream, the sides
scattered with gray rocks of every imaginable size, interspersed
here and there with heather, gorse, or furze. Just in the widest
part of the valley, a sort of platform of rock jutted out from the
hill-side, and afforded a station for one of those tall, narrow,
grim-looking fastnesses that were the strength of Scotland, as well
as her bane. Either by nature or art, the rock had been scarped
away on three sides, so that the walls of the castle rose sheer
from the steep descent, except where the platform was connected
with the mountain side by, as it were, an isthmus joining the
peninsula to the main rock; and even this isthmus, a narrow ridge
of rock just wide enough for the passage of a single horse, had
been cut through, no doubt with great labour, and rendered
impassable, except by the lowering of a drawbridge.
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