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%vith equidiftant round towers : the outmoft wall is eighteen 

 feet high. At the diftance of twenty-five feet is another, thirty- 

 feet high, with a rampart of ftone, defcended by large Heps 

 from bottom to top, w hich is ten feet broad ; around the whole 

 is a ditch thirty feet wide and twelve deep, unequally fupplied 

 with water. On the north fide of the city is a rock a hundred 

 and fifty feet high, covered with various buildings. This im- 

 portant city was in poffeffion of the EngliJJj from the year 1751, 

 and bravely defended by Major Laurence^ either within the 

 walls or by his vidories over the French in the environs. He 

 was feconded by Clive, then a captain : their conjoined efforts 

 contributed to the confirming the power of the EngliJJj in India, 

 and promoting our future greatnefs. 

 Escalade. The famous efcalade of the French, in 1753, may be com- 



pared to that of the Savoyards on Geneva, in 1601 : it was 

 equally brave, but equally unfuccefsful. " Multitudes of the 

 French got into the town, which was preferved by the gallan- 

 try of a lieutenant Harrifon, the governor, the brave Kilpa- 

 trickj being ill of his wounds in bed. The French, bewildered 

 in the darknefs of the night, amidfl: the intricacies of the fortifi- 

 cations were difcovered, yet made a brave defence. Part, who 

 made their retreat were, by reafon of the deftru6tion of the 

 fcaling ladders, compelled to make a defperate leap from the 

 walls. Death or maiming was the confequence. The furvivors 

 within the walls furrendered to the brave fubaltern, who died 

 foon after in his humble ftation, unrewarded, unpromoted for 

 his moil important fervice *. 



* Orme, i. p. p. 320 to 324. 



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