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 THE LANDING. 347 The next morning was fine, but the surf had so OHAP. much increased that for several hours the landing was suspended. After the middle of the day it be- continua- came practicable, though still somewhat difficult, to landing. go on with the work ; and great eftbrts were made to land the Engiisl] cavalry and the rest of the ar- tillery with the appertaining horses and equipages. Unless a man has stood in the admiring crowd which gathers to see the process of landing one horse upon an open sea-shore ; and unless, whilst he carries in his mind the labour and energy brought to bear upon this single object, he can imagine the same toil gone through again and again and again and again, till it has conquered the whole assigned multiple, he will hardly know wliat work must be done before a general can report to his Government that he has landed upon an open coast, with a thousand cavalry and sixty guns all in readiness for either movement or com- bat. By labour never once intermitted (except when darkness or the state of the sea forbinle it), and continued from the morning of the 14th until the evening of the 18th, the whole of the English land-force, which had been embarked at Varna (together now with Cathcart's Division), was safely landed upon the enemy's coast.* The result then was, that under circumstances stitute a reserve for our army, and was therefore, as we saw, left beliind when the invading armies embarked; but Lord Raglan soon perceived the expedienc}' of having this force with him in the Crimea, and the orders he therefore gave brought it up by the time above shown.
 * Cathcart's Division —the 4th — had been meant to con-