Battles of Saratoga, 1777; the Saratoga Monument Association, 1856-1891General Books, 2013 - 82 pages This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... clearings all around the old relics of the past, earthworks and roads have been ploughed up, and are quite lost." Miss Van Eyck: "This is a beautiful glen, with the water tumbling over the rocks. Didn't you tell me, Mrs. Harris, that these ravines would all be dry?" Mrs. Harris: "I supposed they would, for I have heard that all the small water courses in this country had become greatly reduced, or were quite dried up." Miss Van Eyck and Mrs. Harris linger on the little bridge, Judge Van Eyck and Mr. Winship pass over, ascend the slope on the other side and walk on a few yards. Mr. Winship: "Look at this, Judge; here is another road, branching off from the one we have followed." Judge Van Eyck: "This is, indeed, clearly another road of the same kind; let us follow it. You see it is graded in the same way. There were in those times no roads in New York as carefully and skilfully graded as these are. You can easily see the difference between these and the country roads we have been riding over to-day. Take a look now up and down this ravine, and at the surrounding country. Do you see that where that little bridge crosses the ravine is the only place that an army could have been taken over without the construction of a very long bridge, and a far greater expenditure of time and labor than Burgoyne used. He had skilfull engineers. This road you have just pointed out must have been made to carry the artillery and stores to Breyman's and Balcarras' redoubts." Mr. Winship: "Do you think, Judge, that these can be the old ruts made by the artillery and wagons in Burgoyne's time? Would they not have been filled up long ago by the deposit of leaves and dirt?" Judge Van Eyck: " It is said that a depression of four inches in the earth will be... |
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Battles of Saratoga, 1777; The Saratoga Monument Association, 1856-1891 Ellen H 1832-1915 Walworth No preview available - 2015 |