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on a fine day, is full of interest. There are a large number of guns, 

 all more or less damaged, tying here and there on the parapets, but 

 the balls and other movable objects of interest have been pretty 

 much carried away by travellers. The guns are all stamped " G. R." 

 representing the reign of King George L, and are principally nine, 

 eighteen, and twenty-four pounders. Some of them are about two* 

 and. a half tons in weight. We carried away some fifteen or twenty 

 balls, nearly every one in our party securing one or two. 



There are six inscriptions on the outer front walls, but these 

 indicate nothing of im- 

 portance. Take, for in- 

 stance the following : — 



" Guildford Long, 

 Of Rotherhithe : Fecit. 

 1754." 

 This means nothing- 

 more than that the stone 

 bearing the inscription 

 was dressed by Mr. Long 

 in 1754, and that said 

 Long hailed from Rother- 

 hithe. The others are : 

 "W. Matthews of Rother- 

 hithe, 1755," "Jno. Pater- 

 son, 1754," " Henry Rob- 

 inson, 1753," " James 

 Whorey Taylor, 1741," and " Wm. Irwin, 1752." 



There are a number of graves near the fort, some of them well 

 preserved, with rude tombstones. On one of the latter I noticed 

 the initials "C. B.," and on another, "John Sutherland, 1813." At 

 one of the graves a number of bones were exposed, which we placed 

 together and covered over with the loose gravel at hand. 



While on Eskimo Point, upon which the old fort stands, I visited 

 Sloop's Cove farther up the harbour, where there is a quantity of 

 writing or engraving upon the rocks, of more or less historical value. 

 In 1741, a man named John Kelley was hanged, it is said, for steal- 



GROUND PLAN OF OLD FORT PRINCE OF WALKS. 



