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 54 SEBASTOrOL BF.F01:K the BAT'JLi: CHAP, liatl hitherto Lelieved to be at all probable.* So, _ although in the beginning of February 1854 the on*the*fd* works planned for the defence of the Avest side 185?;^™"'^ of the town had been begun, the whole of the Karabel suburb, and even the approach from the south leading into the heart of the place, re- mained untouched by the spade.-)* After that peri(M], however, some works sprang up ; and on on the 14th the day when the Allies effected their landing, the state of the land defences was as follows : So much of the project of 1834 as had for its im- mediate object the defence of Sebastopol proper had been almost carried into effect ; for at inter- vals along a curved line beginning from the Artillery Fort and ending at the ground over- hanging the head of the JNIan-of-war Harbour, there now stood tliis chain of works : the Artil- lery Fort, the Land Quarantine Bastion, J the Central Bastion, the Schwartz Eedoubt, and the Flagstaff Bastion. With the exception of the Central Bastion, which was still in course of con- struction, these works had reached their comple- tion, and were connected with one another by a naked, loopholed wall, which passed with but little interruption along the whole of the curved •l" The approacii which was afterwanls bani'd by tlio Flag- staff Bastion. + The same wmk as that which the llus.sians called the ' Number Six ' Bastion. I call the work the Land Quarantine Bastion from a fear that there might be a tendency to confound it with the sea-fort near Quarantine Bay, which we have al- ways been accustomed to call the Quarantine Fort.
 * Todleben, vol. i. ]). 121.