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ground near Fort Tsee ; and it was really a splendid 

 sight to see the masterly style in which, with seem- 

 ing hardihood, yet real precaution, they made their 

 advances facing the fire, yet exposing themselves 

 little to it dashing at all the dangerous points, and 

 aptly availing themselves of all shelter. There was 

 one defect the glazed tops of their shakos blazed 

 like pewter platters in the sun, and betrayed the 

 position of every file. The fort kept up a brisk 

 but vain fire on them, and they soon gained the 

 rugged ground near it, without loss, where, sheltered 

 by a naturally scarped rock, the engineers were able 

 in security to trace out their intended battery. 

 There let us leave them a while, and take a look 

 around us. 



A single glance at the position. It was almost 

 parallel with the barrier ridge. The French camp 

 was pitched to the right, and southward of the for- 

 tresses, in a somewhat marshy plain. Betwixt it and 

 Fort Tsee was the broken ground before spoken of, 

 and a wooded slope, with a nest of pretty houses, the 

 residences of the officials, standing thereon. The 

 Castelholni road passed by it, and the headquarters 

 were established at Finby. Our camp was well 

 chosen. It was directly in rear of the ridge; so 

 directly, that it could not be seen from the round 

 towers, which were built rather on its inner slope. 

 In consequence of this, the guns required so great 

 elevation that the fire was ever random and uncertain. 



