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this quantity, would not be required to exceed a fquare of 
twelve yards, provided the depth be about four yards and a half. 
And two cifterns of thefe dimenfions, would be fully adequate 
for every purpofe that the garrifoa would require. 
Another objedion, however, was flatted, grounded on the 
opinion of fome of the artillery officers in the ferviee of the 
Eaft India Company, who conceived the Lion's Hill to be within 
point blank fhot of the Devil's Hill, the flope of which, below 
the rocky fummit, is at leaft twice the height of the former, 
and Gonfequently commanded it. Thefe gentlemen, who are 
fuppofed to be among the beft informed of the Company's offi- 
cers, may be very good artillery officers, but they are certainly 
bad judges of diftance in a mountainous country ; for, as Sir 
James Craig has obferved, the neareft point of the Devil's Hill 
is at the diftance of 3700 yards ; but that, in order to get any 
thing like a level with the part of the Lion's Rump, on which 
the moft confiderable part of the works would be placed, it 
would be necelTary to go farther back on the Hope of the De- 
vil's Hill, at leaft five hundred yards, and even then the eleva- 
tion would not be equal to that point on which the faid works 
were fituated ; fo that the point blank range of the Campany's- 
artillery officers is, at leaft, 4200 yards. Sir James obferves, 
that a refidence of fourteen months at the Cape, fince he gave 
his opinion on this fubjed:, and a continued and unremitting 
ftudy, to render the place as defenfible as poffible, had only 
ferved to confirm him in it ; an opinion, indeed, which perfedly 
coincided with that of Lieutenant-Colonel Bridges, who com- 
njanded the Britifh engineers, as well as with that of every in- 
telligent 
