INTRODUCTION. xxiX 
As it was on the eaftern fide that the inha- 
bitants expeded the Englifh to make their 
attack, it was in this quarter they took care 
to conftruft the ftrongeft fortifications. But, 
among thefe new works, there was one which 
was far from meeting with general approba- 
tion. By profefiional men it was confidered, 
if not altogether ufelefs, as calculated at leaft 
very little to obftrud: the taking of the town. 
To prove who were in the right, and who ia 
the wrong, in the judgment of this matter, 
it would have been neceffary that the town 
Ihould adually be befieged ; but this was an 
event that did not take place. To the inha- 
bitants, however, the conflrudion of this fort 
afforded a fubjeO: of confiderable pleafantry. 
According to them, the contradors had la- 
boured for their own advantage rather than 
for that of the colony; and by Colonel 
Gordon the fort was called in derifion Fort 
While 
