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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
and so exposed a maritime frontier as Maine. Yet while Military roads are making to aid the defence of some portions of our country, and bays, rivers and towns are fortifying for the defence of others, most of the garrisons and works within this State erected at considerable expense by the National Government are now without a single soldier to guard them, and for want of necessary attention rapidly falling into decay.