Saratoga. £$9 



arid rapid again. The ground is here 

 turned into corn-fields and meadows, but on 

 account of the war, it was not made ufe of. 



Saratoga has been a fort built of wood 

 by the Englijh, to flop the attacks of the 

 French Indians upon the iLnglifo inhabitants 

 in thefe parts, and to ferve as a rampart to 

 Albany. It is fituated on a hill, on the 

 eaft-fide of the river Hudfoh, and is built of 

 thick pods driven in to the ground, clofe to 

 each other, in the manner of palifades, 

 forming a fquare, the length of whofe fides 

 was within the reach of a mufket-fhot. 

 At each corner are the houfes of the offi- 

 cers, and within the palifades are the bar- 

 racks, all of timber. This fort has been kept 

 in order and was garrifoned till the laft war, 

 when the Engtijh themfelves in 1747 fet 

 fire to it, not being able to defend them- 

 felves in it'againft the attacks of the French 

 and their Indians -, for as fbon as a party of 

 them went out of the fort, fome of tlicfe 

 enemies lay concealed, and either took them 

 all priforiers, or mot them. 



I shall only mention one, out of many 

 artful tricks which were played here, and 

 which both the Englifh and French who 

 were prefent here at that time, told me 

 repeatedly* A party of French, with their 



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