Dahlgren, drawing his information from the official accounts of the "English and French admirals," describes the works and their location is follows:-- "The Boug and the Dnieper issue into a large basin, formed partly by the projection of the main shore, partly by a long narrow strip of Sand-beach, which continues from it and takes a north-westerly direction until it passes the promontory of Otchakov, where it terminates, and from which it is separated by the channel, whereby the waters of the estuary empty into the Black Sea." "The distance between the spit or extremity of this tongue and the Point of Otchakov, or the main shore opposite, is about two miles; but the water is too shoal to admit of the passage of large vessels of war, except in the narrow channel that runs nearest to the spit and its northern shore.

Here, therefore, are placed the works designed to command the entrance.

They are three in number.

Near the extreme point of the spit is a covered battery built of logs, which are filled in and overlaid with sand,--pierced for eighteen guns, but mounting only ten." "Advancing further along the beach is a circular redoubt, connected with the spit battery by a covered way.

This work, built of stone, and riveted with turf, is open, and said to be the most substantial of the three; it has eleven cannon, and within is a furnace for heating shot." "Further on, and where the beach has widened considerably, is Fort Kinburn, a square bastioned work, extending to the sea on the south, and to the waters of the estuary on the north.