grim-muzzled

Updated: May 31, 2025

Arrived at the famous Rock, we are at once impressed upon landing with its military importance. Every other person one meets is in uniform, and cannon are as plenty as at Woolwich or West Point. The Signal Station is fifteen hundred feet in height. The zigzag path leading to the summit is lined with wild-flowers, though we come now and again upon embrasures, whence protrude grim-muzzled guns.

Maturin Murray Ballou - Foot-prints of Travel: or, Journeyings in Many Lands