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,
- This was an adjunct to the work which the Allies called
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.
