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THE tunnel was of large dimensions, averaging twenty-five feet in height, and -- when once clear of the gulley -- fifteen feet in width, the floor was remarkably even, with a stiff gradient. In remote ages the tunnel had evidently been the outlet for an enormous quantity of water -- possibly a mountain lake -- but the supply had long since diminished and had found a new outlet.
Just within the entrance to the tunnel a guard of warriors was drawn up in a recess, in one corner of which a fire was burning.