I have only time to add that I am with usual " health, though in no better lodging than a soldier's tent, with our old "friend General Scott." {General George Clinton to John McKesson, "C.^MP^■E.^K White-Plains, October 31, 17"fi.")

'"On the same evening," [October 23,] "Col. Tyler's, Huntington's, and "Throop's Regiments, of General Parson's Brigade and of our General's " Division, moved, and took post at the head of King-street, near Rye- "pond. " -- (Memoirs of General Heath, 75,76.)

» Vide pages 2.51, ante.

♦ Genernl Heath to Colonel Lasher, " Wiiite-Plains, October 27, 1776 ; " General Greene to General Mifflin, " Fort Lee, October 27, 1776 ; " Memoirt of General Beath, 79, 80.

' General Greene lo General Wnshinglnn, " Fort Lee, October 29, "1776."

*Oolonel Lasher to General Heath, " Camp at King's Bridge, October "26. 1776." ' Memoirs of Gniernl Heath, 79, 80.

* OoloH^'l iMsher lo General Heath, " Camp at King's Bridce, October "26, 1776."

ington, in person, was composed, nominally, of about twenty-five thousand, four hundred, and fifty men, of whom about twelve thousand and fifty were sick, on independent commands, or on furlough; leaving only about thirteen thousand, four hundred, rank and file, present and fit for duty.** The supply of Provisions, as the reader has been already informed,'" was exceedingly scanty ; " the Medicine-chest was almost destitute of both instruments and drugs ; ''^ and Clothing was a luxury in which very few could comfortably indulge themselves.''' The troops, as we have already stated,'* were dispirited and, often, disaffected ;