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WHEN ABANDONED BY THE ARMY. 151 XIT. The next clay, the 29th, the Allies were seen to chap. be again reconnoitring, but again refraining from ' an attack ; and the people of Sebastopol as well 29tii Sept. . , . . , 'i'lii! Allies as the garrison were now beginnnig to draw en- stiiiie- courageraent from a new and a wholesome source, iiomau ^ attack : They were cheered by the mere sight of the won- spectacle ders which had been wrought by the work of^^'irkshy their own hands. For a time, of course, there had L^hLV,'"*; been a great deal of the labour, as, for instance, the making of platforms — which went on in work- yards, in factories, on board ships, in numbers of places, not reached by the public gaze ; but the immense contributions towards the general scheme, which had thus been going on separately, and, as it were, out of sight, were now fast added, and added to the lines of defence ; and, upon the whole, the result was so vast as to be astonishing to most people, and, in the eyes of some, almost magical ; for, except the engineers, who could reckon these things by arithmetic, there were few who imagined beforehand the greatness of the works which might be done in three days by several thousands of men working always by day and by night, and under guidance so skilful that no man's toil was in vain. Of the changes which were wrought in the de- changes fences during the interval between the evening or been wrought in the 25th and the evening of the 29th September, uie defences II- • since the a rapid indication is all I am willing to give, eveninsof Along the line between the Artillery Bay and the