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ri;iNCB mext.sciiikoff's measures. 79 town, llic rest of the tlect should he lichl in veaui- CTIAP. ness to be sunk. In the mean time, liowevcr, L_^ they were to be ranged in an order which ^ould enable them to pour their fire npijn the slopes descending from the North Side. The order directed that, npon the mere appearance of the enemy on the heights to the south of the Belbec, two of the roadstead batteries on the north, the Paris and the Twelve Apostles, should be de- stroyed. A separate order directed that vast 21st soi.t. quantities of the ammunition and other stores ofstores ' from tliH should be transported from the iSorth to the North side. South Side. All day, the numbers of vessels em- ployed in obeying this order were crossing and recrossing the roadstead. The timely removal of these stores tends to show that the defence of the North Side against the Allied armies was regarded at the time as an almost desperate undertaking. It was not until the afternoon of this day that Colonel de Todlebeu had completed the survey entrusted to him the evening before by Prince jNIentschikoff. For eight hours he was riding xoaicWn-s . . ^^ ^ report (if over the ground, and studying it, as may well be hissiuvey, supposed, with anxious care. Upon his report the whole tenor of the rest of the campaign was depending. At length he formed his opinion, and with a confidence which freed him from all mis- giving. In order apparently to receive Colonel de Todleben's report, Prince Mentschikoff had come back to the North Side, for there — in the Lodge that he had close adjoining the Number Four Battery — Colonel de Todleben waited upon