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Rh as in the entry for June 3: "This morning an Engineer and 100 men began working on the new road" In the original the name is given: "Engineer Gordon with 100 Pioneers began to break Ground on the new Road" He refers to himself again on July 9 as "One of our Engineers": "One of our Engineers, who was in the front of the Carpenters marking the road, saw the Enemy first." It is well known that Gordon first caught sight of the enemy and the original journal affirms this to have been the case: "Mr Engineer Gordon was the first Man that saw the Enemy." Mr. Sargent said the author "was clearly one of the naval officers detached by Com. Keppel." Though Mr. Gordon, as author, impersonated a seaman, there is certainly very much more light thrown on the daily duties of an engineer than on those of a sailor; there is far more matter treating of cutting and marking Braddock's Road than of handling