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Menfuremeni of a Bafe on Hounflow-Heath. ^^3 



operation continued eight or ten clays, owing to the lower part 

 of the heath, between Wolfey-River and the Poor-houle, 

 being encumbered with brufh-wood. 



When the clearing of the firfl: fe<3:ion was completed, the 

 fecond, comprehended between the Summer-houfe and the great 

 road leading from Staines to London, was traced out in the 

 following manner. One of the pyramidal bell-tents (whereoF 

 two had been provided, one of twenty-five, and the other of 

 fifteen feet in height) being placed at the ftation near the 

 Summer-houfe, camp colours were then arranged from diflance 

 to diftance, fo as to be in a line with the bell-tent and Banfted 

 fpire. In like manner, the third fecflion, comprehended be- 

 tween the Staines Road and King's Arbour, was traced out. 



This firfl tracing of the bafe was done by means of a com- 

 mon telefcope held in the hand only, that no time might be 

 loft in employing the foldiers to fmooth the tra6l which was to 

 be meafured ; becaufe the tranlit inftrument (my own pro- 

 perty, for which a portable fland had been for fome time pre^ 

 paring) was not yet ready to be applied, as it afterwards was^ 

 in tracing out the bafe more accurately. 



The camp ftill remained, where it was originally pitched, 

 at the angle of Hanworth-Park, this being a very convenient 

 pofition, with regard to the firfc and fecond le(5lions ; but being 

 too remote from the third, that time might not be loft, and 

 the men unneceflarily fatigued in marching backwards ai:Md for- 

 wards ; therefore, one half of the party, under the comrpand 

 of the corporal, was detached to the northward, and quartered 

 in the neighbouring villages, to dear the third feflion, while 

 the ferjeant, with the remainder, were occupied in fmoothing 

 the fecond. Owing to the extraordinary wetnefs of the fea- 

 fon, this operation required more time than had been at firfl 



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