[March 1776, cont.] Immediately upon their
Retr-
-eat we entered the Town with
part of the Forces from
Roxbury
by Land & Some
conside=
-rable Force from
Cambridge
by Water. We found the Works
upon the Neck entire, the
Cannon Spiked up, & the Shells
chiefly Split, & many of the
Cannon Carriages cut to pie=
-ces; these Lines upon the neck
were handsomely built & so ama-
-zingly Strong that it would
have been impracticable for
us to have forced them; the
Other Works were not So well
constructed as I immagined
wee Should have found them,
especially at the Bottom of the
Common & on Beacon
Hill they
appeared to be ill constructed &
design'd for little but to frighten
us- The Enemy embarqued