. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. Scat 2* <m^/u/<2 /- 7S iSca/? of •Sectiorz,J*jQ above were emplacements for four heavy barbette guns behind a stoneparapet of five feet in thickness. Its command, when finished, wouldbe fifty-four feet above low water. When, says the board of engi-neers, we take into consideration that Dumplings Point is an essentialposition for defending the central pass into Narraganset Bay, and that 490 DEFENSES OF NARRAGANSET BAY, RHODE ISLAND the channel is one mile broad at this place, we must perceive thatthe effect of this Tower is almost
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. Scat 2* <m^/u/<2 /- 7S iSca/? of •Sectiorz,J*jQ above were emplacements for four heavy barbette guns behind a stoneparapet of five feet in thickness. Its command, when finished, wouldbe fifty-four feet above low water. When, says the board of engi-neers, we take into consideration that Dumplings Point is an essentialposition for defending the central pass into Narraganset Bay, and that 490 DEFENSES OF NARRAGANSET BAY, RHODE ISLAND the channel is one mile broad at this place, we must perceive thatthe effect of this Tower is almost null for that purpose, and that itsco-operation with Fort Adams, to accomplish so important an object, hasnever been calculated and is totally inefficient. Fort Hamilton.* This unfinished work, on Rose Island, is of a rectan-gular form, six hundred by five hundred and twenty feet, with flankingtowers, fifty feet in diameter, on the northwest and southwest angles, andregular bastions at the two other angles. The south front, which sees ves-sels coming
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