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Updated: May 18, 2025
He did not confide to Flora what he had seen, but the tapping of his foot on the floor-board gave her the information as surely as any spoken word. She startled him not a little by rapping out the enquiry: "How much lead have we got." "Five miles." "We shall do it. They won't average more than twenty-eight and we're good for that. Where are we now?" "Hogs-back." "What's time?"
We found the walls, or the end of the table-land, to be about two thousand feet high, with the canyon emerging at a sharp angle so that a narrow ridge, or "hogs-back" lay on the left side of the stream. Once out in the open the walls were seen to be quite steep, but could be climbed to the top almost any place without trouble.
The bad four miles turned out to consist of alternate patches of ancient corduroy road, the logs exposed for a foot or so above the soil, and a long hogs-back of dyke-veined limestone, the ridges of spar and quartz cutting deep into the rock. Mrs.
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