A quantity of palisades upright,
So placed as to impede the fire of those
Who held the place, and to assist the foe's.[372]
XI.
This circumstance may serve to give a notion
Of the high talents of this new Vauban:
But the town ditch below was deep as Ocean,
The rampart higher than you'd wish to hang:
But then there was a great want of precaution
(Prithee, excuse this engineering slang),