The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . color. Excavations just south of themarket, in 1SG0, re-vealed what appearedto be the remains ofthis old fort. Theposition of the ad-vanced work, whichwas much the strong-er, was between Ded-ham and CantonStreets, a point fromwhich the first unob-structed view in frontis obtained as far asRoxbury. It mountedtwenty guns of heavycalibre, besides sixhowitzers and a mor-tar battery. The re-dan was flanked by abastion on each side of the highway
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . color. Excavations just south of themarket, in 1SG0, re-vealed what appearedto be the remains ofthis old fort. Theposition of the ad-vanced work, whichwas much the strong-er, was between Ded-ham and CantonStreets, a point fromwhich the first unob-structed view in frontis obtained as far asRoxbury. It mountedtwenty guns of heavycalibre, besides sixhowitzers and a mor-tar battery. The re-dan was flanked by abastion on each side of the highway, from which the lineswere continued across to the marshes. The road passedthrough the centre of both lines, the first having a gate anddrawbridge. A third and smaller work, lvins; between theothers, on the eastern sea-margin, bore on Dorchester Neck( South Boston), and took the left curtain and bastion of themain work in reverse. After the siege the works were de-molished, in order that they might not he available to theenemy should he again obtain possession of the town. Ves-tiges of them were visible as late as 1822, particularly on thewest GEN. GACiE. 72 NEW DEFENSIVE WORKS. Just one month before the siege began, a committee of theProvincial Congress on the present -date of the operationsof the British army reported : — That two mud breastworks have beeu erected by them on Bos-ton Neck at the distance of about 90 or 100 rod^ iu front of the oldfortifications, the works well constructed and well executed. Thethickness of the merlons or parapet about J feet, the height about8 feet, the width of the ditch at the top about 12 feet, at the bottom5 feet, the depth 10 feet. These works are already completed andat present mounted with 10 brass and 2 iron cannon A barrackis erecting behind the breastwork on the N. side of the Neck. The old fortification at the entrance of the town of Boston isrepairing and greatly strengthened by the addition of timber andearth to the walls
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