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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. %65
ACRI.
The improvements made by Djezzar, in the fortifications
of this town, would now enable it to withstand any siege
carried on by land; but an attack by sea at the same time
would destroy its means of defence in a few days.
Its situation on a point of land is favourable; it is en-
closed towards the land, from sea to sea, by the old walls and
battlements, which opposed the entrance of the French. In
front are others added by Djezzar, consisting of square
towers of inconsiderable size, connected by curtains, forming
a second line, commanded by the old works. Both are of
masonry. The scarp of the second line may be about thirty
feet; in front of which is a dry ditch, thirty feet broad,
with counterscarp about eighteen feet deep. This line ex-
tends in two long sides, forming a saliant angle to the coun-
try. The guns appear old, and placed without any arrange-
ment. The weakest points are near the sea; that on the
right, where the principal land entrance is made, is covered
by an orillon and double flank. The left is washed by the
sea, where the water is low; but the approach is rendered
difficult by a palisade.
The sea front is composed of a lower line wall with era-
2 M
ACRI.
The improvements made by Djezzar, in the fortifications
of this town, would now enable it to withstand any siege
carried on by land; but an attack by sea at the same time
would destroy its means of defence in a few days.
Its situation on a point of land is favourable; it is en-
closed towards the land, from sea to sea, by the old walls and
battlements, which opposed the entrance of the French. In
front are others added by Djezzar, consisting of square
towers of inconsiderable size, connected by curtains, forming
a second line, commanded by the old works. Both are of
masonry. The scarp of the second line may be about thirty
feet; in front of which is a dry ditch, thirty feet broad,
with counterscarp about eighteen feet deep. This line ex-
tends in two long sides, forming a saliant angle to the coun-
try. The guns appear old, and placed without any arrange-
ment. The weakest points are near the sea; that on the
right, where the principal land entrance is made, is covered
by an orillon and double flank. The left is washed by the
sea, where the water is low; but the approach is rendered
difficult by a palisade.
The sea front is composed of a lower line wall with era-
2 M