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Show I ' JOO TRAVELS THROUGH VPPF.R C N ADA: here. Adjoinin·~ tht: wharf arc vc:ry xtenfive fiorcs bclong~ng t,'> the cr'n"n> and :tlfo to private p r(ons. N wy lLt lis uow occttpit:d by the trc •op ; the fort Hl th opf10itte tide of the ri ver, when; they wt n! form<... 1Jy flationc.l, having bct:n ddi ..:r ·J .up purfuant to th late trl!aty hctwc<.:n his J\Ltjdlv and the Unic ·tl 'mtes. Tlw troops, ho <.:v r, arc onlv to n·m:tin ~t tl~e hall until a bl ckhouf· j.s r ·Clc,l on tl e top ol the h,tJ~J·-.; for tb•:il <\ CClll!nOd.ltiUll ; this building is in a {bte of forwurd ncf~;, ~rnd the n~inecr he pc~ toluvc.; it firtilhed in a(! · v months. Th fo 1~t of .t'-t i:tg 1ra Han , immediately al the m utH f th river, on a point of t 1nd, 11y lide < [ which is ' "'dhccl by the riv t:r.and th · •>th~..r by the Ltkc. Toward the water it is fiockadcd; and b~hmd the 1 o..: Lade, 01 , the riv cr litll.!, a large mound of earth rirc:; u1, at the t )P f w~1it h are mbra(ure for <;un ; on the land fide it is fecurcd by C.: vl'r<d lt.t tl ... rics :.tnd redoubts, and by parallel lines of f:tfcint:s . At the r-ates, ani in variou: dift~rcnt p~trts, t 1crc arc il:rong t lockhon fds ; ami facing the lake, within the fl:ocbclt.:, flands a large fortified fl nc honfC. Th~.: fort and outwork occupy abont five acres of ground; and a garrifon of five h undrc rn n, and. at leaH: fro u thirty to forty piece of ordnance, would l neceffary to defend it 1 roperly. The fed ·ral garrifon, however, coa: fl {ts only of fifty m '11 ; an Ll the whole of the cannon in the pbc" amounts mer ly to four fm:.tll field pi ·ces, planted at the four corners of the fort . This fort W;lS fllunded by the French, and confli.: tntcd on link of that e, tcn ll.vc chain of pofi hi h they efl:abli01cd alonl7 the bkcs anc.l the wcflern wat · rs. lt wa begun by the building b of the flone houfc, after a fulem n prot ifc had been obtained from tll'C Indi<111S that the artifi ers fllould not be interrupted whilfl: they were going n with the work. The Ind',tns re-adily n"'aJe this promiCe, .1 > a conf ng to th ' ir notion, it would have been inhofpita blc and unfr iendly in the .>..t1cmc not to have pcnnitt~d a f w traders to build a h oufe within their t rritory to protect them agai1 fl: the inclemency of the fca(ons; but th 'Y were greatly afionilhc l when one ii totally differ ' llt frorn any that they had ver fcen before, and frorh any that they had n Hlca of, was completed; they bega n to fuf1 cCl: that the ihanO'crs had plans in meditation unfavoura.ble to their intcrefis, and they wi!hed F 0 R T 0 F N I A G A R A. .,0( wi{hcd to difpoO<.:fs them of their new man/ion, bnt it was t o hte. !11 the hall o[ the houfe a well had been fun c to keep it (u pplie l with water; the ltoufc was plentifully fl: red wit 1 pruvilions in cafe of a fi~gC)· and the doors being once ·lo!cd, he te nants remained perfcC.lly in different a ltt ev '~'Y holl:ilc atwck th~ Indi,llls could nl'lkc againO: it. l• ortifications to :flrcnrrthcn the hou[e were gradu al ly ·rcCl:..:d; and by the y ar 17 59 the place was fo {lrong as to r ·lifl, f r fi me time, the forces under the command of Sir V/illiam Johnfton. Gn:at additions w rc made to the works after the fort fell into the: hands of the Britilh. Tho il.one hou(c is a very Jj)a ious building, and is now, a it was formerly, ap propriated for the accommodation of the principal ol1icers of the g;t rriion. In the r ar of the houl<.: is a large ;1partmcnt, comma11ding a magnifiG:ent view of the lake :1nd of the clifL1nt hill at Toronto, which forme rly was th L.: oni cers m Cs room, '' 1d a p:1ttern of ncatnc,. The onicers of the fcde J,d g• rr iG n, how'1'cr, confider it more conven ien t to mcfs in one o( the kit(.'hcn s, and this b~autifu l ro 111 h,t been fu fie rcd to go to ruin; il)(l cu every part of tlte fort no c hib it a piCture of flovcnlinefs and ne lt:Cl:; and the ap ear~u cc o ll folliers is equally dt:void of ncatncfs with that of th e:r quarters. Though it was on Sunday mornin?· that we vi/itcd the fort~ on wl1 ich d ty it i ~ ufual even for the men of the ga rrilons in the States to a} pear better drelfed th an a other days, y t the grca ter p:trt of the m · n were as dirty a. if they had been at work in the trench'S for a wc.;ek without intenniJlion: th ir gri ily beards dcmonflratccl that a 1'<1zor bad no t ap )J'Oachcd their chins for many days ; thl'ir hair, t <tppcaran ·c, h.td not been combed for tb : Cune length of time; th ir litl n wa, filt hy, their ~ un s rufl.y, and tl eir clotl es ra •ged. That the ·lot.hc and accot lr ~mu1ts of the men llwuhl not be better is not to be wonckrccl < t, coniidcring how ve ry baJly tl t; wcflcrn army of the tates is appointc.;d in every rd}1ett; b11t it jc.; ilran:;c that the fnccrs !hould not attend more than th..:y do to the de,wlincf-; of th ir men. Tht:ir garrifons on the fron i rs have unifurm ly Cufl~rcd mor ·from ficknefs than thofe of the Brit'th ; and it is to be attributl.!li, I. fhould imagine, in a gr at me, furc to their lil t! in ·f~ ; for the m<:n a t; ';\,'; fl:out and hardy, appan;ntly, as any in tbt: world. The weflern army oL |