46 July 1749. 



in a fandy foil, and the country about it is 

 likewife low, flat ; and covered with woods. 

 The fort is quadrangular, and includes the 

 fpace of one arpent fquare. In each of the 

 two corners which look towards the lake is 

 a wooden building, four ftories high, the 

 lower part of which is of ftone to the 

 height of about a fathom and a half, in 

 thefe buildings which are polyangular, are 

 holes for cannon and lefler fire-arms. In 

 each of the two other corners towards the 

 country, is only a little wooden houfe, two 

 ftories high, Thefe buildings are intended 

 for the habitations of the foldiers, and for 

 the better defence of the place; between 

 thefe houfe?, there are poles, two fathoms 

 and a half high, (harpened at the top, and 

 driven into the ground clofe to one another. 

 They are made of the Thuya tree, which is 

 here reckoned the beft wood for keeping 

 from putrefaction, and is much preferable to 

 fir in that point. Lower down the palifades 

 were double, one row within the other. 

 For the convenience of the foldiers, a 

 broad elevated pavement, of more than 

 two yards in height, is made in the infidc 

 of the fort all along the palifades, with 

 a baluftrade. On this pavement the 

 foldiers ftand and fire through the holes 

 upon the enemy, without being expcfed to 



their 



