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Show T p AVE L S T II R 0 U G Tl N 0 R T H A tT F RIC A : eocs to live in a mere hov ·1 in the wood · till he f,Cts_t imc to build , . . . l .nothcr. ]\'Toney JS hrs tc ol , an d to proc.u r.e it be g1adl ·' r foreno· ocs every fdf- grJ.t ific~J ti on. From this miC·rahl habitation, jufl: mcntirmed, we departed as r tl · W"S 0 , , ,. ·tnd th wind cominbn· round in our favour, .LOOn as lC rain "· , ' . we got as far as Ticonderoga that night. The only dwelling_ hcr_c j th tavern, which is a large houic built of ilonc. On cntenng lt we \·verc ih ·wn into a fp:~cious apartment, crowclcc.l with boJ.tmen and people that had J· Lifr aiTJ·V Cl 1 f rom St . Jo 1 l ll ' s, 1·n C. t• na' d·~t · 'ecing fu h a number of guefls in the houfc, we cxpcClcd nothmg leis than to be kept an hour r two till futlicicn t fu ppcr was prepared for the whole cor 1- pany, to that all might fit down at once together, ~hich, as I have before faicl, is the cufl m in the ountry parts of the Umtcd State ·. Our furpri! C therdi rc was gre.1t at l Tceiving a neat table allll a c o m~ort:.thlc little [upper fj)c ·dily laid out tor us, and no att<.:mp~s made at fci~vmg_ the rcfl: of the company till \\' had quite finiihcd. This was ~epa1~tmg from the fyfl:em of ec1uality in a nunncr which we had nc~er WLtndkd before, and we wcr at a lois for fomc ti 11c to account for It; but we prcfen tly heard that t!Jc woman of the hou!l: had kept a ta\ ern for the grc:1.tcr part of her life at ~cbcc, which rcfolvcd the knotty point. The wife h cnerally tbe aetive pcrfon in managing a country tavern, and the hun)and attends to his f,1rm, or has f0mc ind'p ndcnt o cupation. The man of this houfc was a judge, a fullen demure old gentleman, who 1;1t by the fire ·*, with tattcreLl clothes and diilicvcllcd locks, reading a book, totally reg< rdlcC:· of every pcrfon in the room. The old fort and barracks of Ticoncl roga are on the top of a riling ground, jufl behind the tavern; they are quite in ruins, and it is not likely that they will evc1 be rebuilt, for the fituation is very in(ecmc, being con manded by a lofty hill called Mount Defiance. The Britilh got poD<·ffion of the place the lafl: war by dragging cannon and mortars up the hill, am firing down upon the fort. · • Though this was the 1 .~rth day of July, the weather was fo cold that we found a fire extremely 1 grceabte. Early C R 0 'vV N P 0 I N T. Early the next morninn- we le t 'J'jco nd cro:~a, antl purfued our voy.1gc to rown Point, whc:n; w<.: hndc l to look at the old fo t. Nothing is to be fel'n there, h ow vcr, but a heap of ruins; for Owi tly before it wa e,ivcn up by the Briti!h, the powder magninc blew up, by which acc i- . dent a great part of tht; works \ 'v .1S ddlroyed; finn: the c ' acuati 01 ~ of it allo, the pc pl in the n ·ighbourhood I ave been ontinually Jigging in different parts, in hopes of procuring lead and iron !hot; a con Jiuerabk: q\l'lntity was in one infl:ancc got out of the il:ore · that Jud be ·n buried by the cxplofion. The vault1', whid1 were bomb proof, h:.tv been dcmoli01ed for th fake f the bricks for building chimneys. At the fouth {jck alone the ditches r main perfl:Cl.; they an; wide and deep, and cut through immcnfe rocks of Jimeflonc; and from being overgrown towards th top with dift(:rent kinds of fhrubs, have a grand and pitl:urefque appearance. The view from this fpot of the fort, and the old building in it overgrovvn with ivy, of the lake, and of the difl:ant mountains beyond it, is indeed altogether v ry fine. The fort, and fevcn hundred acres of good cleared lanJ adjoining to it, arc the property of the ilatc of N c,w Y 01+, and arc leafed out at the rate of one hundrc L and fifty dollars, equal to[,. 33· 10 s. ficrling per annum, which is appropriated for the ufc of a college. The farmer who rented it told us, he principally made ufc of the land for grazing cattle; the{;·, in the winter fcafon, when the lake was froz n, he drove over the icc to Albany, and there dilpofc:J of. Cr wn Point is the moft advantageous [pot on the fhorcs of Lake Champlain for a military pofl:, not being commanded by any rifing ground. in the neighbourhood, as Ti ondcroga is, and as the lake is [o narrow here, owing to another point running out on the oppo.G tc fide, tlut it would be abiollltely imr o111ble for a vc!1el t paf.c;, withont bciug expofed to the fire of the fort. The Indians call this placeT k-ya-doughnigarigee, that is, the two points immediately oppofitc to each other: the one oppofitc to mwn Point is called Chimney Point; u on it arc a few houfes, one of which is a tavern. vVhi)c we {l:ai l thcte we were ve1-y agr ably furpri[t-d, for the firfl: time, with the (ight of a large birch canoe upon the h ke, navigated by two or three Indians in the drc11t:s f Z their |
