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 828 THE LANDING. place CHAPTER XXII. CHAP. The ground chosen by Lord Raglan for the land ^^"- ing of all the Allied forces is five or six miles The landing- nortli of the Bulganak Eiver. It gained its name of ' Old Fort ' from an indication appearing on the maps, rather than from any slight traces of the structure then remaining. Along this part of the coast the cliffs rise to a height of from 60 to 100 feet, and for the most part, they impend too closely over the sea to allow much room for the beach. Near ' Old Fort,' however, the high grounds so recede that at first sight they appear to embrace a small bay or inlet of the sea, but upon a nearer approach it is perceived that the inner part of the seeming bay is a salt-water lake, and that this lake is divided from the sea by a low, narrow strip of beach. A little further north the same disposition of land and water recurs ; for there, also, another salt lake, called the Lake of Kamishlu, is divided from the sea by a low, narrow strip of beach a mile and a half in length. The first-mentioned strip of beach — namely, the strip opposite to Old Fort — was the one which