About two-thirds of this bank faced the sea; the other third ran across the spit of land to protect the fort against an attack from the land side.

Still stronger than the bank forming the front of the fort were the traverses, which prevented an enfilading fire These were regular hills, twenty-five to forty feet high, and broad and long in proportion.

There were fifteen or twenty of them along the face of the fort.

Inside of them were capacious bomb proofs, sufficiently large to shelter the whole garrison.

It seemed as if a whole Township had been dug up, carted down there and set on edge.