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 THE 17TH OF OCTOBER. 315 cannonade had passed, it began to appear that chap. our batteries were proving to be of greater power L- tlian those opposed to them. This superiority resulted in part from the greater calibre of the English guns, but in part also from the skill with which they had been planted on Green Hill and the Woronzoff Height. Already a good deal of havoc had been wrought in the Eedan, as well as in the fronting walls of the cazern near it. Some of the guns on the summit of the Malakoff Tower had been dismounted, and the rest were now silent ; for the English shot had not only ruined the parapet, but had flung its stone fragments upon the gunners with an effect so destructive as to compel an abandonment of all further attempt to work the two or three guns still remaining in battery. Eor the rest of the day it was no longer from the tower itself, but only from .some guns covered by the glacis and its lianking entrench- ments, that the famous position of the Malakoff still asserted its power. And althougii at the Eussian batteries the men were still firm, yet elsewhere, it would seem, there was need of that exaltation of spirit which Korni- loff knew how to create by his presence among the combatants. Indeed, one of the very officers who strove to dissuade him from hazarding his life at the ramparts has acknowledged that the forces composing the garrison were in a state to require encouragement.* Whilst the seamen, influence his [Korniloff's] appearance exercised over th«
 * Captain Gendre. The Captain says : ' We all knew what