Paris Revisited, in 1815, By Way of Brussels: Including a Walk Over the Field of Battle At Waterloo
Paris Revisited, in 1815, By Way of Brussels: Including a Walk Over the Field of Battle At Waterloo
John Scott
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N^ar a cluster of ttees, the gglit seeEaed to have been vei^ heavy : about this spol 1^ observed the complete jmpressioa of a maa's l^y on tbe gceupd* as diatinctly marked as if he had fallen on the. siiow:-^he had been of a large size, firobably either a Itfe-guards-oian or a ouiras* ^er, — apd tbe hoie» which had takea the shape of his head, was. full ol a corrupted .fluid, that oee shuddered to look at. Downward from this, along the easy siope^ which sljajits off to the farm oC JE4a Qaye Sui...nte^ the charges of the cavalry had tram- pled de^p. scarrings ifito the ground : all the sur- face of the field here was torn and scattered by the hurricane of the battle :^-*here too we came u|)oq T^ast pits, ill each of which hundreds of horses h^d been buried^ and which flung a fearful stench over the whole extent of this moat impressive scene. Returned again to the Wellington tree, we walk- ed fro;B it, along the position of the left wiiig of the Digitized by Google Brltlsb arm j. A broken and ragged hedge ftfalgei the top of the line of eminence after crossing the road) and a long rank of graves, Ijing under this hedge, intimates the loss of the brave highlanders, who from here met and destroyed the imperial guard.
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