"A good Post to be made at the Oneida Carrying Place capable of Lodging 200 men in the Winter and for 3 or 400 men in the Summer for its Defence, with Loggs--A Parrapet of such a thickness as the Engineer shall think necessary according to the scituation.

"A Ditch to be made to serve to thicken the Parrapet--Barracks to be made underneath the Rampart, with Flues of the Chimneys to come through the Top.

"The Square will be Cheapest Form to be made use of for this Work.

"The Bastions in Like manner can be made Use of for Storehouses or Magazines.

"In the Square may be made Lodging for Officers, and the rest of the Quadrangle clear--The whole to be Logged.

"And opposite the Officers Barrack may be made a Store house for the Deposite of Indian Goods."

By a good Post--I understand to be meant, such a one, as will contain with ease, the said number of Men, To be executed in such a manner, as to protect them from a Coup demain and to, be of such a Size, as will admitt of a proper Defence by such a Garrison--y¢ Exterior Side of which Square, cannot possibly be

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less (if so little) than 300 ft we' procures but a verry small Defence from its flank, & will make an Exterior Circuit of Logging of nearly 1420 ft by at the very least 14 ft high, according as the Scituation may be, & in order to admitt of Barracks under the Rampart, to which the Retaining & Bracing Logg Works, as well as the Logg work fronting the Interior Area, must in course be considered, as Likewise the Logg Work to cover the Barracks, Store houses & Magazines that are proposed to be made under the Rampart of the Curtins and Bastions, by weh it will appear, that the greatest part of the Rampart round this Post, must be formed & Supported with Loggwork.