64 THE IJAl'TLK 01' liNKKK.MAN. CHAPTER VI. THE FIGHT ON MOUNT INKERMAN. DESCRIPTION OP MOUNT INKEUMAN — ITS DEFENCES — STRENGTH OP PENNEFATHER ARRANGEMENT OF THB PICKET SYSTEM — THE ENBMY's CONFUSED AND CLASH- ING COUNSELS — HIS FINAL DETERMINATION. I. CHAP. Having now learnt the state of the battle in • every other part of the field, we at length reach the scene of the enemy's main attack. Mount Except at the narrow, isthmiis-like ridge con- necting it with the downs further south, the north-eastern angle of the Chersonese stands sundered from all other heights by, on one side, the marshes of the lower Tchernaya, on another, the Sebastopol roadstead, on a third, the Careenage Ravine ; and the part of the uplands thus almost cloven off from the rest is that ' Mount ' or pile of hills which, in spite of all Russian geography, lias gathered, Inkerman.
