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WHEN ABANDONED BY THE AKMV. 153 ulieve it stood had been so changed in shape by chap. VI. the industry of the Last three days, that it now closed high up round the centre or waist of the building, and had not only begun to take the form of a glacis annexed to the original work, but was also the site of a new semicircular battery, which covered the front of the tower. This last battery was connected by entrenchments with the other new works thrown up on both Hanks of the ?^ralakoff. Nor was it only along the line of the works that Kornilofl' and Todleben were expending their care. Ships of war were so placed in the creeks tliat their tire could search the ravines which de- scended into Sebastopol. To ease the passage between the town and the Karabel suburb a lloating bridge was constructed. Between all the chief posts along the line of defence there was arranged a perfected system of communicating by signal Provision M-as made for the care of men wounded. So far as can be gathered from the narratives of those who took part in these labours, nothing was forgotten, nothing neglected. Hardly four days had passed since the sight of the Eng- lish on the JSIackenzie Heights disclosed to men gazing from the windows of the Naval Library the peril then suddenly coming upon the south side of Sebastopol ; but to the utmost of what was possible in so scant a time, the garrison had now Tiiegmeia: been put in a condition for using their means of iiadb.in slaughter ; and, on the night of this 29th of Sep- tember, the great Engineer, who had yearned to