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to the new fortifications, was a fight trulf 
admirable. 
But this patriotic fervour was of no long 
continuance. Under pretence of fparing their 
ftrength, and that they might not weary them- 
felves to no purpofe, they foon caufed their 
ilaves to follow them with the tools and 
inftruments. In a little time they contented 
themfelves with fending their flaves only ; 
and at laft.thefe fubftitutes themfelves, in Imi- 
tation of their m afters, or perhaps by their 
fecret orders, gave over going alfo. Their 
enthufiafm, in fhort, from the firft moment 
of its breaking out till the period when it 
was thus entirely cooled, 'had been the affair 
of fomething lefs than a fortnight. 
The works, however, though abandoned 
to mercenary hands, were not interrupted. 
Government caufed them to be continued 
with vigour ; and, when I returned from my 
journey, 
