As an interim measure, eight hundred men had already been posted along the western and southern shorelines, militia from the regiments commanded by the members of the Council.
"Caribbee"
Thomas Hoover
General Aspects of the Topographical Problem That many diurnal migrants tend to fly along shorelines, rivers, and mountain ridges is well known, but this fact provides no assurance that night migrants do the same thing.
"A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2"
George H. Lowery.