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British works which are back on the higher ground, cover some 

 part of the site of the former. The accompanying plan of Fort 

 St Frederick is taken from the Xciv Military Dictionary 1760. 



Fig. 3 Fort Frederick at Crown Point 



Aside from the settlements immediately around the forts above 

 mentioned and incident to them, peaceful occupation began in the 

 latter half of the 18th century. It was well under way in the open- 

 ing years of the 19th. Lumbering, farming and above all iron 

 mining and manufacture all developed and became the chief occu- 

 pations of the inhabitants. Lumbering has practically passed away 

 for the time being, but the other two forms of industry, and espe- 

 cially those of mining and smelting are of exceptional importance.' 



The area described in the present bulletin is contained in the 

 Port Henry and Elizabethtown quadrangles as topographically 

 mapped by the L'nited States Geological Survey, in conjunction 

 with the State authorities. The Port Henr}- quadrangle, lying 

 between west longitude 73'' 15' and 73° 25', is largely in Vermont. 

 Only the strip included in New York is here treated. The Eliza- 

 bethtown quadrangle extends 15' of longitude westward. Both 

 quadrangles are embraced between north latitudes 44° and 44° 15'. 

 In these latitudes a quadrangle is approximately 12.75 n^iles east 

 and west by 17.5 miles north and south. In the Elizabethtown sheet 

 there is therefore included about 225 square miles, and the New 



1 For the general history of this region, the following are of interest: His- 

 tory of Essex County by Winslow Cossoul Watson, first published in the 

 Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society, 1852. and 

 separately in Albany, 1869; Pictorial Field'book of the Revolution by 

 Eenscn J. Lossing, i860. Pages 150-51 relate to the old fort on Crown 

 Po'nt. One of the barracks was inhabited until just before this date. 

 From Lossing's description they have not greatly changed in nearly 50 

 vears. 



