to show the relative positions of the several bodies of the King's forces and the Magazine, at the White Plains ; that the General was surprised that the Army was so greatly imperiled, "complaining, very feelingly, " of the gentlemen of New York, from whom he had " never been able to obtain a plan of the country, "and saying that it was by their advice he had or- "dered the Stores to the White Plains, as a place of " safety ;" that General Greene and General George Clinton were called in, to vouch for the accuracy of the sketch ; that Colonel Putnam " was charged with " a letter to Brigadier-general Lord Stirling, and " ordered immediately to his Camp, which he reach- " ed, by the same route, about two o'clock ;" that, " before daylight, the Brigade was in motion, in full "march for the White Plains, where it arrived, about "nine o'clock, on the morning of the twenty-first of "October;" and that "thus was the American Army " saved by an interposition of Providence, from a "probably total destruction."

While these various movements were in progress, and while his attention to the great events which were passing immediately before him must have been close and constant. General Washington's interest in the future was not neglected. He determined, therefore, to establish a Magazine of Provisions, to the northward of the Highlands and " remote from the North River;" and the Quartermaster-general of the Army was instructed to ascertain the opinions of William Duer and Robert R. Livingston, on the subject; and, in the mean time, the former of the two, who was never absent when any opportunity for making money was presented, was ordered by the Quartermaster-general to purchase, without the slightest limitation of prices or any check whatever, as to qualitiesor quantities or places or times of delivery, thirty thousand bushels of Grain, onehalf of it to be Corn and the other half to be Oats, one thousand tons of Hay, and five hundred tons of Ryestraw -- as Robert R.