as in the entry for June 3: "This morning an Engineer and 100 men began working on the new road. . . ." In the original the name is given: "Engineer Gordon with 100 Pioneers began to break Ground on the new Road. . . ."[1] He refers to himself again on July 9 as "One of our Engineers": "One of our Engineers, who was in the front of the Carpenters marking the road, saw the Enemy first."[2] It is well known that Gordon first caught sight of the enemy and the original journal affirms this to have been the case: "Mr Engineer Gordon was the first Man that saw the Enemy." Mr. Sargent said the author "was clearly one of the naval officers detached . . . by Com. Keppel." Though Mr. Gordon, as author, impersonated a seaman, there is certainly very much more light thrown on the daily duties of an engineer than on those of a sailor; there is far more matter treating of cutting and marking Braddock's Road than of handling
