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2S. Bui it came to pafs, that the chief en- gineers were confulted about the events of ihe fisge; who reported to the chief captains, that the hold was too firing to be taken in that way, but with great lofs of time.

2 9. It was therefore concluded, to fcale the walls thereof, and to Rorm the battlementSo

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30. And on the ninth day of the tenth month, in the onethoufand feven hundred and eighty - ninth year of the Chriftian Hegira, was the

v/o armies gathered together; even the artny of the king of Gaul, and the hofl of the peo- ple of the Provinces.

3 1 . The fokliers of the king of Gaul were in number three thoufand five hundred fighting men; and of the fervants of the great San- hedrim, fix hundred valiant men, and three hundred ^wo fcorc and ten perfons from Charlestown, who went willingly to the battle.

32. They went on towards the hold like iions, and like fierce lions they rulhed on their enemies I