24 The winter sets in there as in the oy" parts of the Province of New York, and not sooner; and as to the Practability of executing this post or Fort before the winter Majt Eyres begun fort W™ Henry in Sept and it was finished by the end of Noy« follows being an Irregular square of about 300ft each side with Provincials alone and that without any Expence.

Fort Craven burnt by Gen! Webb.

. Ft Williams made of Stockades now destroyed

. Ft Stanwix built in 1758

Ft Newport, a small Stockaded Fort with a Ditch round it

Saw Mill built in 1758

The Mohawk River

A small Creek wh has its head from three spring

. The Middle Creek, has its head at a spring and joins the

above Creek a little below the Fort.

I. The Saw Mill Dam

K. The Mill Race

L. The Waste Race

M. The Road from the Mahawk River over the Carrying Place to Fort Newport.

N. Stoney Creek part of the Wood Creek

O. A Drowned Swamp, the head of Stoney Creek

P, A Sluice and Dam to raise a head of water to float Batteaus to Fort Bull.

Q. A wood Dam made by a Prodigious number of trees thrown there Promiscuously by Freshes

R. The Oswegagie Indian Path.

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526 PAPERS RELATING TO

The Black Mold of this Land in general goes to 4 or 5 feet deep, then for about 2 foot deep a Blew Pipe clay, then a gravelly and Sandy Bottom.