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ihecorps of artificers; who, together with fomc 

 Creole and negro carpenters, are aQively em- 

 ployed in fitting and putting up thefe frames 

 with all poffible expedition : but much of hurry 

 and difficulty might have been avoided had the 

 hofpitals, the barracks, and other buildings 

 been fent out in time to have been ereGed be- 

 fore any of the troops, or any divifion of the 

 moving part of the expedition arrived. 



The confufion that muft neceflarlly arlfe 

 from the arrival of the foldiers, of the build- 

 ings requiring to be ereded, and of all the va- 

 rious departments, at the fame moment, muft 

 !)e felf-evident ; and it will readily appear, 

 from the hurried and numerous claims each 

 department will have upon the artificers, that 

 many of the requifites attaching tQ the hofpi- 

 tals may not be completed, before the more 

 preffing cccafion for them has ceafed, on ac- 

 count of the removal of the troops to diftant 

 ftations. Prefent experience may convey aa 

 ufeful leflbn. 



From the great exertions now making we 

 hope very foon to have hofpital room at Sr. 

 Anue's Hill for, at leaft, a thoufand fick, aad I 



