An auxiliary detachment, to attack in flank, might succeed there; but the passage being so narrow, would be too tedious for the whole party to arrive in time.

Should we take the south, we must cut through the whole garrison before we could reach the earl.

And on this side, the morass lies too near the foot of the rock to admit an approach without the greatest danger.

But on the north, where I descended, by wading through part of the Leven, and climbing from cliff to cliff, I have every hope you may succeed." Edwin recounted the particulars of his progress through the fortress; and by the minuteness of his topographical descriptions, enforced his arguments for the north to be the point assailed.

Closing his narrative, he explained to the anxious inquiry of Wallace how he had escaped accident in a leap of so many feet.