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which gun carriages, musquets, haversacks, accoutrements, beef and 

 potatoes, and the everlasting brown bread, lay in grand confusion. In 

 fact, all the rubbish of the place, including no doubt a few dead men, had 

 been tumbled in ; and, to crown and stir up the whole, the enemy's shells 

 had fallen thick in this direction. 



In rear of the curtain which connects the bastion Toledo with No. 3, 

 was the casemate said to have been occupied by Chass6, during the early 

 part of the siege : Dutch and French journals, gazettes, returns of men, 

 and other papers, lay scattered over the floor of the council-chamber ; the 

 gazettes were subsequent, many of them, to the commencement of the 

 siege. 



The port de secours, opening in the same curtain, was strongly barri- 

 cadoed. The curtain itself had suffered. A gun upon bastion No. 5, was 

 curiously injured; a projectile had struck it upon the right trunnion or 

 central projection, and had broken the piece short across ; it was large 

 and of iron, and lay in two portions ; the right wheel of the carriage was 

 also injured. From local circumstances, it was improbable that any thing 

 but a shell could have caused this curious accident, which the engineers 

 seemed to consider as unprecedented. 



Many a joke was cut upon the garrison library, consisting of some noble 

 folios, chiefly music books, which had been thrown into one of the re-enter- 

 ing angles of the ditch, near to the common sewer. 



In rear of bastion No. 5, was Chasse's casemate, containing three cham- 

 bers, a wretched vault, even after the care that had been bestowed upon it. 



Near this was the principal powder magazine, hourly expected to blow 

 up, since structures equally strong had given way before the shells from 

 the Liege mortar. This mortar, concerning the failure of which so much 

 was said, fulfilled all reasonable expectations ; its shells were intended to 

 destroy not men but buildings, and they accordingly broke through every 

 thing upon which they fell. 



Upon the rampart was the tomb of some soldier of former times, who 

 had fallen at his post, and been buried where he fell. 



We now descended into the interior of the citadel, occupied centrally by 

 a large place, surrounded by barracks, stables, ofiicers' (juarters, a powder 

 magazine, and a church. 



The centre had been used as a parade ground, and during the siege, as 

 a depftt for spare shot and shells, which had been piled there with military 

 regularity. The enemy's fire, however, had sadly disarranged all the neat 

 pyramids, scattering their component parts in all directions, and leaving 

 only portions of the lower rows, to show where they once had stood. Some 

 of the balls were broken into two pieces. 



Of this central space, not a square yard together had escaped, it was 

 covered with broken iron and scattered earth ; the pavement had been torn 

 up partly by the shot, and partly used by the besieged to charge their mor- 



