[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] engage the country people as lookouts alonK should be upon our watch this way. Your ac-the River— I could wish you to have such per-tivity and care I rely upon, sons on whose fidelity and vigilance you can 1 am Dr Sir depend stationed at different points as far Your Obedt. Servant, down as Fort Lee. that we may have the ear-Go: Washington. FROM JANUARY, 1779, TO SEPTEMBER, 1780 453 ton. We borrow the following description of Stony Point, as it then was, from Irving: It was a rocky promontory advancing far into the Hudson, which washed three sides of it. A deep morass, covered at high water, separated it from the mainland, but at low tide might be traversed by a narrow causeway and bridge. The promontory was crowned by strong works furnished with heavy ordnance, commanding the morass and causeway. Lower down were two rows of abatis, and the shore at the front of the hill could be swept by vessels of war anchored in the river. The garrison was about 600 strong. Washington's instructions to Wayne were to make the assault about midnight, because, as he explained, the usual time selected for such enterprises was just before dawn, when a. more vigilant officer