Surely the little tree-fringed Bronx did not offer any serious obstruction : surely the entrenched Camps behind which the heavily laden column was slowly marching, and which were abandoned when the column reached Uiem, those who had occupied them falling in and increasing the strength of the moving force, did not intimidate him : rather let it be supposed that General Howe's well-settled, wellsupported policy of exposing his men, in assaults on , entrenchments, only when the objects to be attained by such assaults were adequate to the loss of men, in such assaults -- " not wantonly to commit His Majes- " ty's troops, where the object was inadequate," was his own description of it -- controlled him, as it had done in Brooklyn, while the King's Army was on Long Island. It appears, however, that General Lee

! How'e Diary, October 22 and 2.3, 1776.

^Sparka's Writings of George ]yashingtonj iv., 524.

3Tho twenty-second of October afforded tlie only letter in his published Correspondence, between the fifteenth of October and the sixth of November ; and Doctor Sparlis, wlio comlucteii l)is Writings througli Iho Press, stated, in explanation, " tlie unsettled state of tlie Army, "for several days siicceeding the date of this letter," [tluU of the sixth of Nortmber,} "allowed very little leisure to the Connnander-in-chief "for writing."-- (irriiinjs o/ George Wnsliiugton, iv., 157, note.)

*In the published Orderhj-honks of the Army, there does not appear a aingle entry, not even of a Parole and Countersign, between the eighteenth and twenty-fifth of October.