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of its use as an Army hospital. Cast-iron frames of school desks, 

 probably those in use in the Indian school at the time the building was 

 destroyed, were also found in excavations at the Hospital. 



Scarcely more information of architectural significance was found 

 for other room areas of the Hospital — those indicated in 1879 as rooms 

 7 to 11 — closet, dining room, kitchen, matron's room, and bake house, 

 respectively (this bake house was actually a room within the Hospital, 

 and should not be confused with another Bake House, probably built 

 some time after 1879, and located east of the Hospital, between it and 

 the Magazine) (fig. 15) . A cellar area was found beneath the dining- 

 room area indicated on the plan of 1879; this cellar had, however, 

 merely been excavated into the subsurface clay and gravel and was not 

 provided with cribbing or masonry. The dimensions of the cellar as 

 shown on the accompanying plan are consequently only approximate 

 (fig. 16; pi. 36, h). No evidence was available to indicate the exact 

 period of construction of this cellar, which is not mentioned in the 

 report of 1879. Here as elsewhere smaller objects found appeared 

 to be related rather to the use of the building as a school than as a 

 hospital. 



In areas 5 and 6, the bathroom and laundry rooms shown on the plan 

 of 1879, almost no building debris or objects were found, and these 

 areas had probably been much reduced in height at the time the adja- 

 cent earth cellar was made, leaving little deposit in these areas above 

 the original ground surface upon which the Hospital had stood. 



At the site of the bakery, or bake oven, of the Hospital, the only 

 architectural detail of note was the stone foundation or platform, 

 probably the base for the oven proper (pi. 36, b). Although the ma- 

 sonry of this footing was not preserved to its full original height, it 

 was, however, higher than the top of the adjacent wall footing by as 

 much as 6 inches, and had probably originally been even slightly 

 higher. This foundation had been made of large boulders (some as 

 great as 2 feet in greatest dimension), spalls, and even a few fired 

 brick. The upper surface of the platform was not smooth or level, 

 and some of the original stones had probably been removed after the 

 destruction of the building, with any parts that may have rested on 

 the foundation. The rock in this masonry had not been laid in regular 

 courses or layers, but at random ; some of the flatter stones had been 

 laid flat, but others were set on edge or at an angle, as convenient in 

 the masonry. The upper surface of the surviving foundation had 

 probably been subjected to intense heat from time to time, from the 

 stoves or ovens, individual stones having thus been cracked and 

 spalled. Adjacent to the masonry foundation was a rubble heap of 

 fired brick, but it was not possible to determme the precise original 

 location of this chimney, lacking any separate footing. 



