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 OF TlIK AL.M.V, 53 II. With the exception of an adjunct* to one of chap. the sea-forts which faced in part along shore, L__ the whole line of landward defences traced out in the year 1834 had been suffered to remain in the condition of a mere project down to the close of 1853 ;t and certainly on its south side, is53- at that time, the place lay unite open; but alter thcuopwiou ' •■■ "^ -^, 1 -ITT South Side; the rupture of friendly relations with the Western Powers, which followed upon the action of Sin- oiu% some works were be^un upon a part of the works •■^ ' o i i _ afterwards projected line of defence. At first, however, it commeuccd; was only against the eventuality of a sudden landing in one of the neighbouring bays, and an incursion thence into the town, that the engineers were apparently plying their task ; for an en- terprise of that kind, undertaken as a measure merely auxiliary to an attack from the sea, was the utmost in the way of a land attack that Prince Mentschikoff, the Commander-in-Chief, the Artillery Fort, and for the llussiaii names of which see the footnote, p. 4S, ante. The adjunct seems to have been in- tended to secure the flank of the sea-fort called by the Russians ' Number Eight ' with which it was connected ; but as the work has been counted amongst the land fortifications, I have thought it right to speak of the adjunct mentioned in the text as an ex- ception to the statement there made. t In the mean time, however, i.e., in 1S37, the Russian Gov- ernment had followed up the project of 1834 by causing a gifted Swiss oflicer in its service — now General Burno, belonging to the detached Staff of H.E. General Kotzebue— to prepare a detailed plan of the proposed works. — Xole lo 3d Edition.
 * This was an adjunct to the work which the Allies called