460 THE GREAT SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR. 
and in Case of an Alarm the Town Regiments to Line the Wall of the 
Town, and those of the Southward to form on their Parades.” 
Various other entries relate to the precautions to be observed and 
the early measures taken during the Siege, the most curious of which 
is perhaps— 
“21st July.—The Guards to mount without Powder in their Hair.” 
We shall see presently how the writer accounts for the disposal of 
the said powder. 
“5th August.—People employed making three Batteries, one above 
Willis’s and two below it, also in making an Encamp Ground for about 
600 men just above the Devil’s Gap, where a mortar is planted, and in 
making Bomb Proofs in the Wax Yard.” 
Willis’s, it may be explained, was then, as it is now, the name given 
to a group of batteries looking north across the Neutral Ground, and at 
some height up the Rock. 
There is now a battery at Devil’s Gap. 
“29th August.—Our Men of War’s Boats go out now and then, but 
are always either too soon or too late. The Admiral continues to live 
on shore.” 
“ 12th September.—Green’s Lodgement being finished, which is about 
900 feet above the level of the Istmus, Willis’s, &c., began firing on 
the Spanish Lines about } past 6 a.m., and made very bad practice— 
the Dons had several working parties there, and had last night thrown 
up a Fascine Battery to the Hastward of their common entrance. The 
Devil’s Tower Guard called in before the firing.” 
The writer always speaks of the besiegers as “the Dons,” never as 
“the Spaniards” or “the enemy.” 
The Devil’s Tower is a tower still standing just below the perpen- 
dicular face of rock on the North Front. 
“ 14th September.—The Batteries fire as usual, they hit the Forts of 
Phillip and Barbara, &c., frequently but do them little damage, nor 
are they likely to be knocked down, so much the boast of the Artillery; 
but on September 30th we find “The Officers of the Artillery receive 
double pay.” 
“ 16th September.—Two Shells from the Sea Mortar at Willis’s fired 
with 33 lb. of Powder burst in leaving the Mortar but one with 28 lb. 
fell and burst about half-way between Fort Phillip and their Encamp- 
ment, about 3500 yards. 24 Pounders mounted at Green’s Lodge.” 
“24th September.—A duck and a small plumb-pudding cost 7 shil- 
lings.” i 
“29th September.—The Dons have raised a parapet from Fort Philip 
to the Corporal’s Guard and from thence seem to cover themselves 
towards their Laboratory Tents at the Foot of the Queen of Spain’s 
Chair, so cautiously do they act on all occations. They have erected a 
Stage at the Orange Grove for landing their Stores. Mortars seen 
there.” 
These names are still in use and indeed Spilsbury very rarely employs a 
name whether of a place on the Rock or in Spain, that is not in com- 
mon use at this day. Wegnow come to a very curious entry— 
