LOUISBURG—-PAST AND PRESENT.—HONEYMAN, 195° 
QUEEN'S BASTION 
Is about 450 feet S. E. from the Citadel. Between the two 
extend a Rampart, a Parapet, the Ditch with a bridge, a Place of 
Arms with Covert-ways, two Traverses and a Glacis with passage. 
PRINCESS’ BASTION 
Is about 450, feet, from Queen’s. Bastion. Between this and 
the preceding is a Rampart, a, Parapet, the Ditch with bridge, 
Place of Arms with covert-ways, and two Traverses, a Glacis and, 
passage. At the north end of the bridge. is the Queen’s Gate 
and entrance to the City. In this Bastion is.a fortified Cazemet, 
(I give the old spelling of words like the. last.) This Bastion 
has its east. sice on the shore, north of Black Cape. At the. 
back of the Bastion is a small pond. Between this Bastion and 
the Brouillan Bastion is a Small Arms Curtain which extends 
along the shore about 525 yards. Between this and the City is 
a Piequet Line raised during the siege in 1745. 
DAUPHIN BASTION. 
This is situate on the north-west of the Citadel at a distance 
of about 550 feet. Between, the ditch is about 200 feet wide. 
Between the two and at the Dauphin isa Pond. This is crossed, 
by a bridge near the Bastion. Outside are Covert-way and 
Glacis. Inside of the Fort, beyond the Rampart, are a Powder 
Magazine and a Guard House. This Bastion is near the Harbour. 
In the inside and in the City is another Pond. 
PROFILE OF THE FORTIFICATION. 
West,—a. Glacis, b. Banquet, c. Covert Way, d. Counterscarp, 
e. Ditch, f. Parapet, g. Banquet, h. Rampart, i. Talus. Hast,— 
Back of the Dauphin Bastion is “The Spur.’ Attached 
to this is the west end of the chain boom, which extends 
to the east and opposite side. This boom was to protect 
the French ships in 1748. 
THE KEY CURTAIN. 
’ This extends from the Spur and runs sub-parallel with the 
shore.as far as the Battery la Grave (Greve) to a length of about 
