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ius did not incline that way, for he never had any value for 

 them, being only Nefts for Deftru6t.ions : 178 His Excellency 

 faid, He had a fpecial Order from their Majefties King 

 William and Queen Mary to Ere6t a Fort there, &c. 

 Then they went a-fhore and fpent fome time in the pro- 

 jection thereof. 179 Then his Excellency told Maj. Church 

 that he might take all the Forces with him, except one 

 Company to ftay with him and work about the Fort; the 

 Major anfwered that if his Excellency pleas'd he might 

 keep two Companies with him, and he would go with the 

 reft to Penobfcot, and Places Adjacent. Which his Ex- 

 cellency did, and gave Maj. Church his Orders: which 

 are as followeth. 



H8 Recall Church's previoufly ex- 

 prefied opinions in regard to the forts at 

 Mou7it Hope and Pocajfet. [pp. 25, 47, 

 Part I.] 



119 This fort was built of over 2000 

 cartloads of ftone, in a quadrangular 

 figure, 737 feet in circumference outfide 

 the outer wall, and 10S feet fquare with- 

 in the inner walls. The fouthern wall, 

 fronting the fea, was 22 feet high, and 

 more than 6 feet thick at the ports, 

 which were 8 feet from the ground. 

 The great flanker or round tower at 

 the weft end of the fouthern wall was 

 20 feet high ; the wall on the eaft line 

 12 feet high; that on the north 10 feet, 

 and on the weft 18. It had 28 ports, 



and 18 guns mounted, fix of which 

 were eighteen-pounders. The ftruclure 

 ftood back 20 rods from high-water 

 mark, and was garrifoned by 60 and 

 fometimes 100 men. \_Magnalia, Book 

 VII: 81; Me. Hift. Coll. v: 282.] 

 This fort was not intended to operate 

 againft Indians merely, but againft 

 piratical rovers who infefted the fea, 

 and againft the French, who intended 

 repoffeflion. That which Maj. Andros 

 had built in 1677, and which the In- 

 dians took in 1690, was a mere ftock- 

 ade ; "un Fort, qui n'etoit a la verite 

 que de pieux, mais affez regulierement 

 conftruit." [Charlevoix, Nouv. France, 

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