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Royal Charter, which required that the country should 

 be fortified. 



The building of the fort appears to have been carried 

 on for many years under the direction of the famous 

 Samuel Hearne, already referred to as having traversed 

 the Barren Lands to the mouth of the Copper Mine 

 River. In a stone barrack within the Fort, Hearne 



RUINS OF FORT PRINCE OF WALES. 



lived and carried on business for the Company for 

 many years. 



The fortress was in the form of a square, with sides 

 three hundred feet long ; at the corners were bastions, 

 and on top of the massive stone walls, twenty feet in 

 height by thirty feet in thickness at the base, were 

 mounted forty-two guns. With such a defence one 



