B , in New-Torkand East New- Jersey; A Plan of the Country from Frog's Point to Ooton Hirer shewing the positions, etc. ; Annual Register for 1776 : History of Europe, *177 ; Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 339 ; Marshall's L\fe of George Washington, ii., 500 ; etc.

Reference may properly be made, in this place, to the two Maps, named among the authorities referred to, in this instance -one of them drawn

* There are some reasons.for supposing that those two Regiments constituted the force left, under Colonel Lasher, for the protection of Fort Independence, when the Division was moved to the White Plains.

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constructed and by whom occupied, we are unable to state with certainty, although we suspect that the Massachusetts Militia, commanded by General Lincoln, and the two Brigades of General Spencer's Division, commanded, respectively, by Generals Fellows and Wadsworth, who had been moved from the Heights of Harlem to Kingsbridge, on the seventeenth of October, were the artificers who constructed and the soldiers who occupied that very greatly important line of hastily constructed earthworks.

There had not been much haste displayed in the American Army, in changing its position on the Heights of Harlem, made really strong by the outlay of immense labor, notwithstanding the enemy had completely turned its left flank, occupied a position on its rear, and with the veriest mite of an effort was capable of throwing a strong force across its entire rear, of seizing every line of communication and every strong position, and of forming such a line of offensive operations, covered, on either flank, by the %ihips off Tarrytown and the fleet off Throgg's-neck, Whreh the Americans, in their generally unknown weakness and poverty of supplies, could scarcely have hoped to overcome.