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84 were een, ahd the men ditinctly heard. This eemed to portend the ruin of the plan, but firmnes and reolution conquered every apprehenion of danger. The pies oberving the utmot ilence, mounted the rock, and acended the walls from whence they brought intelligence that all was quiet: Lieut. Cameron then fixed the wooden ladders by which be mounted, and gave thee of rope to the pies, who fatened them by a nooe round the battlements of the wall.

Every thing in readines, Capt. Bruce acended with twelve men, and when he had got within the fort, he ordered them to it down as cloely as poible under the wall, till