These intrenchments, says Dawson, - had been hastily constructed, without The stony soil prenced engineers. the superintendence of experie vented the ditch from being made of any troublesome depth or the Only The latter was not (raised. parapet of a troublesome height. where it was least needed-- probably because the construction of it elsewhere had been interfered with-- was there the slightest appearance of an abatis.*' The works had for their central feature a square fort of sods built across the main street or Post Road; from which westwardly over the south side of Purdy's the defenses extended Hill to a bend of the Bronx River, and eastwardly across the hills Directly across the Bronx t«» Horton's Pond (Saint Mary's Lake). from the termination of the western line of defenses-- that is, in the of < Jreenburgh-- rose an elevated territory of the present Town height called Chatterton's Hill, which was to be the scene of the entire impending battle. On the crest of this hill a breastwork had militiabeen begun on the night of the 27th by some Massachusetts men, but it was not sufficiently advanced to prove of any value. There were no American works or troops whatever west of Chatterton's Hill. The easterly termination of the White Plains intrenchments, as already said, was at Horton's Pond, and there were no supplemental works beyond that point; but off to the east, near Harrison's Purchase, the brigades of Generals George Clinton and John Morin Scott were stationed, and to the northeast, at the head of Kin-