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ive genius Seth Pomroy's Ms. Journal of Louisburg Expedition. R. Wolcott's Ms. Journal, &c. Letters, in Mass. Hist. Coll. i. Memoirs of Last War. Ms. Letters. Belknap, i 273. of New England had been aroused; one proposed a model of a flying bridge, to scale the walls even before a breach should be made; another was ready with ardous enterprises was justly applauded. As it was necessary, for the purposes of attack, to drag the cannon over boggy morasses, impassable for wheels, Meserve, Belknap. a New Hampshire colonel, who was a carpenter, constructed sledges; and on these the men, with straps over their shoulders, sinking to their knees in mud, drew thling, racing, or running after balls shot from the enemy's guns. The feebleness of the garrison, which had only six hundred regular soldiers, with about a thou- Belknap 278. sand Breton militia, prevented sallies; the hunting parties, as vigilant for the trail of an enemy as for game, rendered a surprise by land impossible; while