_A Plan of the City of New York and its Environs_, "surveyed in the winter of 1766", and dedicated to Gen. Gage by John Montresor, is given in Jefferys' _General Topog. of North America and the West Indies_ (London, 1768). Another form of it, purporting to be a later work, is the large folding _Plan of the City of New York and its environs, ... surveyed in the winter, 1775_, also dedicated to Gen. Gage by John Montresor, and published in London. It has been reproduced in D. T. Valentine's _N. Y. City Manual_, 1855, p. 482. It has a corner chart of the bay from Hoboken to Sandy Hook. Cf. the _American Atlas_, nos. 20 and 25. Montresor's plan was reproduced in Paris by Le Rouge in 1777. Major Holland, the British surveyor-general, made a plan of the city of New York, which appeared separately and as a part of his _Map of New York and New Jersey_ (1776). Cf. Valentine's _Manual_, 1863, p. 533, and the small plan of New York and vicinity, eight miles to an inch, which is given in _New York City in the Revolution_ (1861). A plan of part of the city made in 1771 is given in Valentine's _Manual_, 1856, p. 426. There are among the Rochambeau maps several plans of New York and its environs, rather coarse and faded (nos. 26, 27, 28, 31). Contemporary printed maps are in Gaine's _Universal Register_ (N. Y., 1776) and in the _Universal Mag._, 1776. A survey of the region of Turtle Bay in 1771 is given in Valentine's _Manual_, 1860, p. 572, and a view at a later day in _Ibid._, 1858, p. 600. A MS. plan of Fort George (New York) by Sauthier is among the Faden maps (no. 95) in the library of Congress.] Howe was much criticised for his dilatoriness and his failure promptly to use his fleet to get in the rear of Washington's army.[784] There was a division of counsels among Washington's officers as to the advisability of attempting to hold the city; but a decision to evacuate finally prevailed.[785] Washington's army was gradually dwindling, for Congress and the country had hardly reached a conception of the necessity of long enlistments.[786] Finally on Sept. 15th the British passed over from Long Island to Kip's Bay, and the Americans fled in a panic;[787] and, with loss of many stores, Washington gathered his forces within the Harlem lines. Johnston's draft of the works on Harlem Heights follows Sauthier's plan. The site of the fight thereabouts is west of Eighth Avenue and north of One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street of the modern city. Johnston (p. 258) identifies the localities by the present landmarks, and says (p.264) that "some of the works are well preserved to-day" (1878). He also says that Randall, when he surveyed the island in 1812, found the remains of the works agreeing with Sauthier's drafts.[788]