_ 110 _ Captain with such result that they wrecked the place, and it was needful to turn out the people, and also desist from frequenting many places necessary for the service at the time, on account of the danger they ran from the shots. Up to the twenty fourth of September they erected their batteries with their bastions and pits, mantlets and gun carriages of great strength, and very well made, and it really seems from their work, that they are great officers and masters of warlike artificies. On Sunday, the twenty fifth, very early in the morning, they commenced to fire on the bulwarks and walls of this fortress, with basiliscs and other large shot, for they cast on us stone shots of the size and even larger, than those which the Captain sent Your Worship by the catur which departed from hence on the day of the first assault from their artillery. For nine days did they assail this fortress from the seven stations they had set in places so covered that they could hardly be seen in order to reply to them during all this time they fired without allowing themselves any rest or intermission, and this they also did with their musketry which we replied to in the same order and manner as they did, with advantage, for we crushed the mantlets and gun carriages by which they had killed some of the men, among them the Chief Gunner and Field Marshall, and men of rank and position, and Your Worship may believe me, that
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