While the General was at the White Plains, on that tour of inspection, \_October 21, 1776,] he jDersonally examined the Stores which had been accumulated at that place, and renewed his earnest entreaties^ with the Commissary-general of Provisions to supply the posts in that vicinity, in time, with Flour and Beef, for present use ; to form other Magazines of Provisions, " in secure places, removed from the wa- " ter, in Connecticut and at such others as were men- " tioned in my last, and circumstances may direct."* From the same place, the General ordered the Officer in command, at Mamaroneck, to make the best stand he could, with the troops under his command, against the enemy ; and told him of his intention to order an attack on the enemy's flank ' -- how little the General thought that, at that very time, the Officer whom he was thus addressing had shown himself to be only a contemptiljle poltroon." At the same time, he ordered Colonel Lachlan Mcintosh, who was then in Connecticut, with two Regiments of Massachusetts troops, preparing to make a movement against the enemy, on Long Island, to suspend that proposed ex-

1 General Washhiglon h Colonel Lachlan Mcintosh of Georgia^ " White- " Plains, October 21, 177G;" Limlenunt colonel TUghman to William Duer, " HEAD-QUARTEns, Valkntine's-Hill, 22 Oct., 1776."

2 Cfolonel R. H. Harrison to William hner, "Camp on Valentine's- " Hills, October 21, 1776 ; " the same to the Continental Congress, '* Head- " QCAKTEiiS, Valentine's-Hill, October21, 1776;" 3Iemoirs of General Heath, 73, 74.