It is a great inland highway, which will make it possible for the explorer to penetrate the mysterious fastnesses of that still unknown region.

I penetrated for full a quarter of a mile into this fastness in a lateral direction, and, in doing so, suddenly startled two immense white birds of the adjutant species, which were standing in a swamp surrounded by majestic cedar trees.

That spectacle was lost to the worldLee and his army fighting from mountain fastness to mountain fastnessand the annals of war are not illustrated by a chapter so strange.

" Then in and out in a maze, between walls with straight faces of the hard, dry earth, testifying to the beneficence of summer weather in constructing fastnesses from artillery fire, until we were in the firing- trench, where I was at home among the officers and men of a company.

All over the world are its linked possessions and its ports and coaling stations and fastnesses on the trade routes.

The situation possesses none of the elements which would make it a defensible fastness for protracted guerrilla warfare, such as was contemplated in Brown's plan.

There was one chief reason for this: he was born in the almost impenetrable fastnesses at the head of the creek, and his cubhood had been spent amid its brambles of wild currants and soap berries and its rich red ground carpets of kinnikinic.

Angria was practically secure in his fastnesses along the coast, and plundered every ship not strong enough to defend itself.

The great isle of Luzon teems with productions that have markets the world over, and it is commonplace for the savages in the mountains to come out of their fastnesses with nuggets of gold to make purchases.

But, in the clear, cold nights that precede the punctual and distinct winter of these regions, the black bears often come down from their fastnesses amid the wild ridges, and astonish the drowsy habitant and his household by their pranks among his pigs and calves: also in the spring.

Wherever the English were long established in their fastnesses amidst the rocks which form the rugged sides of the deep-cut gorges of the Quercy, many of the inhabitants have clung, century after century, to the belief that the terrible freebooters buried a prodigious amount of treasure with the intention of returning and fetching it on the first opportunity.

For more than two years Sir James Fitzmaurice continued to hold out in his rocky fastness amongst the Galtese mountains.

General Hooker had abandoned the strong position in advance of Chancellorsville, and retired to the fastnesses around that place, to receive the Southern attack.

Would you or I want to bring destruction on neighbours in a land without any rural fastnesses as a rendezvous for operations?