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 way, so well protected was the town by these deep ravines. At last, while searching for a bridge, some of the soldiers found a spot where two trees had fallen across the narrow, though abysmal chasm, and over these, at the risk of their lives, the brave fellows crawled, rallied on the other side, and captured the town. I could never credit this

achievement, as given by the old chroniclers, until I myself had viewed the very ravine, perhaps at the same spot crossed by the conquerors; then I readily believed it, and saw that it was possible, though hazardous, for them to accomplish it, and do not wonder that some fell, through dizziness, and were killed. It is the eastern