ABSTRACT
VIRTUALLY the whole country in the North is mountainous and wooded, as I made plain earlier in the first two books, and contains a large number of localities that are fortified by Nature1 with water and crags against enemy invasions, so that with a small platoon you may find the security you desire almost anywhere, even against a division of horse or foot; and certainly there are a great many marshes so trackless, muddy, and deep that even in the coldest winter you find that they hardly freeze enough to support an infantryman treading carefully.
