THE MUSEUM. 



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still standing in comparatively good 

 preservation. This was headquarters 

 during the war and the business in- 

 volving the welfare of the people was 

 generally transacted here. 



The Upper Fort was five miles 

 above. It also enclosed a house, but 

 was of wood. No trace of its position 

 remains, as the land has long been 

 cultivated where the buildings stood. 



The Lower Fort was situated at 

 "Brunnen's Dorf" si.\ miles below — or 

 north of the Middle Fort — and was 

 built around the stone church (erected 

 in 1772). This was the most exposed, 

 as it was at the gateway or entrance 

 of the valley. So, besides the usual 

 strong pickets or palisades, there was 

 built two block-houses on the south- 

 west and north-east corners mounting 

 small cannon. Each family who 

 claimed the protection of the garrison 

 and the shelter of the walls, erected 

 along the sides of the enclosure rude 

 huts of rough boards, to deposit their 

 most valuable effects in times of 

 Rob't M. Hartley, 

 Amsterdam, N. Y. 



danger. 



Prof. H. A- Ward's Trip Around 

 the World. 



A SCIENTIFIC TRIP OF THIRTY THOU- 

 SAND MILES. 



After an absence of almost eleven 

 months. Prof. Ward is home again, 

 and has completed the longest and 

 most successful collecting trip ever 

 made. He reached Rochester on 

 January 20th, and on the following 

 day, during an interview, gave the fol- 

 lowing brief summary of his trip. 



"When I left Rochester last Febru- 

 ary I went immediately to Europe. I 

 spent a short time in Italy and then 

 crossed over to Alexandria, giving a 

 week or two to Cairo and the pyra- 

 mids, getting hold of some mummies 

 and other interesting specimens of 

 ancient Egyptian times. After ship- 

 ping these back to America, I went on 

 through the Suez canal and the Red 



sea to Abyssinia, where I had been 

 during the previous winter. From 

 there I went to Bombay, and thence 

 into the interior of Northern India, 

 stopping at Delhi, Lucknow and the 

 other principal cities. From Benares 

 I struck the valley of the Ganges, and 

 went down to Calcutta, and from that 

 place came back across India on the 

 southern line to Poonah and thence to 

 Madras. 



"From Madras we went to the tip 

 of India, to the town of Tuticorin, 

 and there took the steamer for Cey- 

 lon. In India I made some consider- 

 able collections for the establishment, 

 in the shape ot mineral specimens, 

 particularly, and shells to some ex- 

 tent, and some polished stones of jas- 

 per, onyx and agate. We spent a 

 week in Ceylon, and then went back 

 into the interior again. It was insuff- 

 erably hot in India. Usually I enjoy 

 hot weather, but that was altogether 

 too much, the temperature averaging 

 about 114 degrees. The carriages 

 and cars have to have peculiar mat- 

 ting floors which are kept soaking wet 

 .til the time, in order to cool the at- 

 mosphere somewhat. 



"We found Ceylon much cooler, 

 being higher land, and more or less 

 surrounded by water. From Ceylon 

 I went in a southeasterly direction 

 across the Indian ocean to the south- 

 west corner of Australia. It was just 

 in the midst of their winter making it 

 necessary for us to put on our heavi- 

 est winter clothing. I visited the min- 

 ing regions, and particularly the mu- 

 seums of Western Australia, and then 

 came back to the town of Albany, and 

 moved eastward along the coast to 

 the city of Adelaide, in South Aus- 

 tralia. There i made arrangements 

 with the leading museums to exchange 

 some of their better- specimens for 

 some in the Rochester establishment. 

 Then I moved eastward again to the 

 city of Melbourne in \'ictoria, which is 

 the largest city in the southern hemis- 

 phere. It is a splendid, lordly city. 



"Well, I stayed in Victoria a while. 



