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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF 
Each main work consists of two front, two flank, and two rear faces, the 
gorge is closed bj a loopholed brick wall, or in one or two cases by- 
palisades. 
Redoubt of Inner Line. Scale 
Each redoubt has a retrenchment similar to those of the outer chain, save 
that the rear faces are of brick. 
Palisades connect the main work with its retrenchment. 
The parapet is only 16 ft. thick, the ditch is 12 ft. broad, the counterscarp 
is in all cases revetted, except in Works 1 and 8, where the ground is 
marshy; the ditch for half its breadth is studded with pointed stakes 18" 
high. 
The fleches are a little retired, their artillery fire sweeps the ground in 
front of the main works, their faces are about 40 yards long, room for five 
guns is generally left at the salient, the gorges are closed by palisading, the 
ditches never revetted, contain generally palisading which slopes towards the 
counterscarp. 
The connecting parapets are 8 ft. thick, the ditch is insignificant, a good 
sunk road runs in rear, above the bottom of which the crest of the parapet 
is ft.; the interior slope of the parapet is not sufficiently steep to permit 
a soldier firing comfortably over it. 
Those faces of this parapet which flank the main redoubts contain each 
two guns. 
