B , in New-Yorkand East Xev- Jersey; A Plan of the Countri/ from Frog's Point to Ooton lliver shewing the positions, etc. ; Annual Reqisler for mc> : Hislorij of Europe, *177 ; Gordon's Histnri/ of the American RemliUion, ii., 339 ; Marshall's Life of George Washington, ii., 500 ; etc.

Reference may properly be made, in this place, to the two Maps, named among the authorities referred to, in this instance -one of them drawn

* There are some reasons for supposing that those two Regiments constituted the force left, under Colonel L.isher, for the protection of Fort Independence, when the Division was moved to the White Plains.

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constructed and by whom occupied, we are unable to state witb certainty, although we suspect that the Massachusetts Militia, commanded by General Lincoln, and the two Brigades of General Spencer's Division, commanded, respectively, by Generals Fellows and Wadsworth, who had been moved from the Heights of Harlem to Kingsbridge, on the seventeenth of October, were the artificers who constructed and the soldiers who occupied that very greatly important line of hastily constructed earthworks.

There had not been much haste displayed in the American Army, in changing its position on the Heights of Harlem, made really strong by the outlay of immense labor, notwithstanding the enemy had completely turned its left flank, occupied a position on its rear, and with the veriest mite of an effort was capable of throwing a strong force across its entire rear, of seizing every line of communication and every strong position, and of forming such a line of offensive operations, covered, on either flank, by the ships off Tarrytown and the fleet off Throgg's-neck, which the Americans, in their generally unknown weakness and poverty of supplies, could scarcely have hoped to overcome.