These mark the halting-places of the vanished glacier when it was retreating into its summit shadows on the breaking-up of the glacial winter.

We marched slowly, for it was necessary every now and then to halt so as to allow the long train of baggage to come up; and it was nearly sunrise before we reached the first halting-ground.

PassportSails from Hull Petersburg Moscow Journey to Iekaterinoslav Kharkov RybalskThe German Colonies The Molokans The CrimeaThe Tartars A suspicious halting-placeSimpheropol Feodosia OdessaConstantinople Smyrna SyraMalta NismesBagnères de Bigorre Pialoux CHAPTER XX. FROM HIS RETURN FROM RUSSIA TO HIS LAST JOURNEY, 1853-1858.

No attempt is made to keep a line, but each man rushes forward at a run, seeking only to reach the new halting position as quickly and with as little exposure as possible.

Through this shallow valley runs the little stream, having at its south-western extremity the springs and wells which give the place its importance as a halting stage.

As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words; when I sat by the roadside, I would either read, or a pencil and a penny version-book would be in my hand, to note down the features of the scene or commemorate some halting stanzas.

Halting-enclosure, rest-house.

"It hadto be," he said, in the husky halting voice so unfamiliar to her.