Jackfo-n of the artillery, with a 6 pounder, to reinforce at the head of the creek ; all of which was promptly done, to the check and difappointment of the enemy. The Britifh encamped on the neck. The riflemen and Yagers kept up a fcattering^ popping at each other acrofs the marfh \ and the Americans on their fide, and the Britifh on ihe other, threw up a work at the end of the caufeway. Capt. Bryant, now and then, when there was an object, faluted the Britifh with a field-piece. In PAGE

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been unavoidably taken up in landing at Frog's Neck, instead of going at once to Pell's Point, which would have been an imprudent measure, as it could not have been executed without much unnecessary risk." It is difficult to conceive what great risk would have been involved in the latter proceeding, since there Avas no American post at the point of Pelham Neck on the 12th of October, or, for that matter, on the 18th of October either -- the final landing of the British there on the latter date being accomplished without the slightest interference on the part of the Americans, and indeed without being known to them until the advance party of the invaders suddenly showed themselves to the American pickets a full mile and a half above the point. But even granting the force of the special objection to Pelham Neck as an original landing place, one marvels why Throgg's Neck should have been regarded as the only alternative spot. Surely there was adequate depth of water at points farther up the Sound (Mamaroneck Harbor, for instance); and General Howe's sole object being to outflank Washington, it would have been rather an advantage than a disadvantage for him to disembark at a comparatively northernly locality.