3Q2 Major-General Roy's Account of the ' 



foot would furnifh the neceflary centinels, particularly during 

 the njo-ht, for guarding fuch parts of tlie apparatus, as it was 

 fbrefeen muft remain carefully untouched, in the frequent in- 

 terims of difcontinuing and refuming the work. Accordingly, 

 a party of the 12th regiment of foot, confifting of a ferjeant, 

 corporal, and 10 men, were ordered to march from Windfor 

 to Houuflovv- Heath, where they encamped on the 26th of 

 May, ciofe by Hanworth Summer-houfe, to which fpot the 

 neceflary tents, camp equipage, and entrenching tools, &c» 

 had been previoufly fent. 



Whatever might have been the particular dire^Slion given to 

 the bafe confidered by its extremities, from confulting the plan 

 it will eafily appear, that it muft always neceflarily lead 

 through the narrow gorge of the Heath formed by Hanworth- 

 Park and Hanworth-Farm. The firft point therefore to be 

 attended to, in tracing it out, was, that it might lead through 

 this pafs, without interfering with certain ponds, or gravel-pits 

 full of water, which are in it. Thefe were eafily avoided by 

 carrying the line pretty near to Hanworth Summer-houfe ; and 

 in direding the telefcope from thence towards the fouth-eaft, 

 it was accidentally found, that by leaving Hampton Poor- 

 houfe a very little to the weftvvard, or right, the line would 

 coincide with a remarkable high fplre, feen at the diflance of 

 eleven or twelve miles, and known afterwards to be Banfled- 

 Church. As there could i^ot be a better fituated^ or more 

 conspicuous objed than this, therefore the firfl: or fouth-eafl 

 iedlion of the bafe, comprehended between the Summer-houfe 

 and the angle of the fmall fie-ld adjoining to Hampton Poor- 

 houie, was immediately direfted upon it ; and the foldiers were 

 the fame day fet to work to clear the trad, which, at a me- 

 dium, was made from two to three yards in breadth. This 



ojperation 



