There was, too, an entire absence of the heavy and continuous work in the wet trenches.

The great drawback to the position was, indeed, the absence of excitement and change, and the quiet seemed almost preternatural after the almost continual boom of cannon at the front.
Jack was pleased to find his chum Hawtry on duty at the height.
"This is a grand view, Hawtry," he said, as he stood at the edge of the cliff the morning after his arrival.
Below at his feet lay a great fleet of transports.

To the left the cliffs stretched away, wild and precipitous, rising to heights far greater than the point at which they stood, some 600 feet above the sea.

On his right the hill sloped gradually down to the old Genoese castle, and then sharply to the harbor, in which lay several men-of-war.

In Balaklava, lines of wooden huts had been erected for a hospital, and their felt-covered roofs contrasted with the red tiles of the Tartar houses, and with the white walls and tower of the church.