The Fort is built on a Level spot of Ground Composed of Pebble stones mixed wt Gravel and Sand and is to the Eastward and Southward 19ft above the Level of the Swamps and Low lands. To the Northward the Ground is much on a Level with the fort, but to the Westward it descends gradually for three Quarters of a Mile to Fort Niewport to the Common Level of the Swamps. To the West, North, and Eastward, the woods are Cleared, between 3 and 4 hund4 yards, and to the Southw4s 700 yards. F a Magazine 65 foot long by 16 ft wide Bomb. Proof. The loggs of wc the fort is built are generally 2 ft thick, fiatted on the upper and under sides. The Casementes (at present Barracks) are covered wt two teer of Square timber from 12 to 24 Ins broad by 12 In thick as Represented in the Profil.

XIV.

CONTROVERSY

BETWEEN --

NEW YORK AND NEW HAMPSHIRE,

RESPECTING THE TERRITORY NOW THE STATE OF

VERMONT.

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GOV.. WENTWORTH TO GOV. CLINTON.

5 Portsmouth, Novembet 17th 1749. ir

T have it in command from His Majesty to make Grants of the unimproved Lands within my Government, to Such of the Inhabitants and others, as shall apply for Grants for the Same, as will oblige themselves to Settle and improve, agreeable to his Majesty's Instructions.

The War hitherto has prevented me from making So great a progress as I hoped for, on my first appointment; but as there is a prospect of a lasting peace with the Indians, in which Your Excellency has had a great Share, people are daily applying for Grants of Land in all Quarters of this Government, And _particularly Some for Townships to be laid out in the Western part thereof, which will fall in the Neighbourhood of your Government.