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| 1 | 459 | The View more quotes about ground">ground approaching it sloped down, gently, toward its retaining wall, only some inches in height, too low to allow a man cover behind it. |
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| 1 | 456 | I trod the wet gravel toward the left side of the wagon bridge. |
| 1 | 457 | I paused there to look across the moat. |
| 1 | 458 | It was some forty feet in width. |
| 1 | 459 | The ground approaching it sloped down, gently, toward its retaining wall, only some inches in height, too low to allow a man cover behind it. |
| 1 | 460 | In this wall, at its foot, there were openings every twenty feet or so to allow for water from the outside to drain into the moat. |
| 1 | 461 | This pitch of the land, too, incidentally, makes it difficult to drain the moat. |
| 1 | 462 | It could be done, of course, by men working under a shed, to protect them from missile fire, arrows, lead sling pellets, and such, or, say, more safely, and less exposed to sorties, by siege miners, through a tunnel. |