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-1 ficacious. i 1 therefore conclude that if the above , mentioned works -were necessary in • 1816, they ere at ill more so at the prcs-1 ej)i rime, nnd that they ought nut to ire t abandoned.tenbe8U1ly.woJ’JSwhThere are several works comprised in this -class (C.) that stand on different ground. They arc. Fort Kmx, in Maine, Fort Clinch, in Georgia, Fort Taylor, ut Koy West, nod Fort Jefferson, on one of the Tortugaa islands.Fort Knox is designed to protect Penobscot river, which has a large commerce, and afford* a fine anchorage.—The large town of Bungor and several | cof flourishing villages lie on the river and wlibay.Fort Clinch is intended to dofend the jonirancc into Cumberluiid Sound. This} (sheet of water affords un excellent har-rjbor, and the bar at the entrance it is r:*uid. affords a sufficient draught of wa-. ter for sloops-of-war and merchantmen, j There is no town of much consequence,, | I believe, either on the Sound, or on St. t! Mary’s river»which empties into it, and t; the utility of this work depends upon the importance of excluding an enemy • from ilie Sound, und securing it to our-•: selves. Both this work and the proceeding, belong more properly to numbert doss of cases to which L ahull presently *t; refer.:! The two remainLnsz works, now inmeprlt;prcmudisJoindiflidexcisnulBothe
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Wisconsin Statesman
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Jan 13, 1852
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