The Australian Mounted Division was on the right, fighting vigorous actions with the enemy rearguards secreted in the irregular, rocky foothills of the Shephelah which stand as ramparts to the Judean Mountains.

The former on its way down the foothills to the sea runs into reservoirs and the inhabitants conduct the steam from it through pipes into rooms set up high, where they use the steam for vapor baths.

Those operating in the foothills on our right had to fight all the way, and they were often called upon to resist counter-attacks by strong rearguards issuing from the hills to threaten the flank and so delay the advance in order to permit the Turks to carry off some of their material.

Four of us, mounted on mules, now started on our journey along the foothills without a road.

From the marsh beyond the creek came the familiar croaking of the frogs; from the foothills in the cow-pasture came the shrilling of the crickets.

Jeff was gazing across the foothills with a queer steely glint in his blue eyes.

These Alpine foothills for shape and vegetation are very like the Ligurian hills north of Genoa and round Arquata.

Reaching the foothills near C. Crozier, they ascended 800 feet, then packed their belongings over a moraine ridge and started to build a hut.

We arrived at the edge of the foothills about noon.

Among his books are "The Idiot," "A House Boat on the Styx," "The Bicyclers, and Other Farces," "Songs of Cheer," "Line o' Cheer for Each Day o' the Year," "The Foothills of Parnassus," "A Quest for Song," and "The Cheery Way."

" I recognised the voice of a cowboy whom we had employed: a man known in the foothills as Cock-a-whoop Charlie.

What water we found was in small pools in the wash-out places near the foothills at the edge of the valley, probably running down the ravines after some storm.

Its battlemented walls are like those of Cittadella and Castelfranco, but in a better state of preservation and more picturesque, running up a rocky foothill behind the town and coming down again,a most curious effect.

They were in the foothills by this time, and they had drawn out from the trees to a little level space on the top of a rise.

The virtues that counted in the foothills during the eighties were generosity, courage, and that amazing power of recuperation which enables a man to begin life again and again, undaunted by the bludgeonings of misfortune.

Next morning we passed through the foothills into an open meadow country.