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On this first branch of controversy, that is to say, the exaot position 

 of the two contending armies in line of battle and ready for action, we 

 have three infallible and immovable land marks to work upon as certain 

 and true basis. 



1. The Buttes-à- Neveu and the line of Montcalm thereon, formed 

 en front de landière, that is a straight line of his regulars. 



2. The spot where Wolfe expired now marked by his monument. 



3. The other spot, quite near, on the eminence of the gaol, where 

 he received the third and mortal wound. Moreover, we have the best 

 of all the plans, the ground itself of the battlefield under our eyes, 

 which hardly covers a square mile. 



It is easy to find the true direction of the handière line. It runs 

 from the west side of the Tower No. 2 on top of Perrault Hill, Buttes-à- 

 Neveu, toward and close to the west side of the General Hospital, at an 

 angle of 45° west, — according to the meridian line of Holland, without 

 reckoning the 30' of its error at that time. 



The proof of this direction is clearly furnished by Mr. Doughty 

 himself, from his own showing by his plans. 



Eeference being had; 



1. To Jefferys' plan published in 1760, p. 140, and reproduced by 

 Mr. Doiighty (Paper, p. 394) ; — it will be seen on the enlarged view, 

 this line passes somewhat a little west of the General Hospital, as 

 also on the British Museum plan, repToduced, Vol. II, p. 257, and Mr. 

 Doughty carries it even more west on his plan "A," p. 378, of his paper; 

 whilst on the other plan, also produced by Mr. Doughty and drawn for 

 him by St. Michel, vol. 11, p. 96, this line of handière is carried east a 

 distance of 233 yards, from the General Hospital, forming a wide gap 

 between these two 'handière lines, measuring an angle of 28°, 20', 

 between them. 



2. To the plan n^xt in date of publioatioji of Jefferys, geographer of 

 His Majesty, drawn from the original soirveys made by the Engineers of 

 the Army, vol. 11, p. 272, which is identical with the one published by 

 Thomas Mante, in 1772, in his History of the late War in North America; 

 — it will be seen that the French line runs exactly in the direction toward 

 the General Hospital. 



3. To the large coloured and valuable plan, vol. 1, p. 264; — it will 

 be seen that the French handière is also exactly in line with the General 

 Hospital. 



4. The plan. Vol. Ill, p. 116, also shows the French line en 

 handière, opposite the English army, in the enlarged view of their dis- 

 position ; and also the same direction is given towards the General Hos- 

 pital, though these buildings do not appear on the map giving, on a 

 smaller scale, the position of both armies. 



