Almost  exactly  down  the  centre  ran  the  Krithia
road  from  Seddel  Bahr,  having  the  "  Achi  Baba
nullah,"  which  runs  into  Morto  Bay,  close  on  the
right.  Almost  parallel  to  the  road,  at  an  average
distance  of  300  yards  to  the  left  or  west  side,  runs
the  main  or  "Krithia"  gully,  which  drains  the
greater  part  of  the  central  scoop,  and  also  issues
into  Morto  Bay.  A  track,  which  became  a  road,  ran
beside  this  gully  as  far  as  a  dividing-point,  called
"  Clapham  Junction,"  where  the  trickle  of  water
branched  into  East  Krithia  and  West  Krithia  nullahs.
Almost  every  yard  of  this  wide  scoop  of  land  was
fully  exposed  to  the  guns  on  Achi  Baba,  and  some  of
it  to  the  Asiatic  guns  as  well.  In  consequence,  as
the  campaign  continued,  it  rapidly  became  covered
with  a  network  of  trenches  and  dug-outs,  looking  like
a  vast  graveyard,  and  terminating  in  an  almost  in-
extricable maze  at  the  front,  where  it  was  checked
by  the  Turkish  system,  equally  elaborated.  Except
close  to  the  front,  however,  transport  and  other
communications  were  always  carried  on  above  ground  ;
the  orass  was  turned  into  sandy  waste,  and  the
paths  into  roads  thick  with  dust.  About  half-way
between  Cape  Helles  and  Krithia,  the  Peninsula
was  cut  right  across  from  sea  to  strait  by  the
Eski  or  Old  Line,  which  crossed  the  Gully  Ravine
near  Gully  Farm,  and  the  Krithia  nullah  about
250  yards  north  of  Clapham  Junction,  and  ended
about  a  third  of  a  mile  below  the  mouth  of  Kereves

Dere.
