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XIII.
FORT STANWIX.
CAPT. GREEN'S OBSERVATIONS ON A PLAN OF A FORT ORDERED TO BK
BUILT AT THE ONEIDA CARRYING PLACE.
Being ordered by Brigadier General Stanwix to give my opinion in Writting of a Plan ordered for a Fort at the Oneida Carrying
Place, paying a Comparative attention to a letter from His
Excellency General Abercrombe Dated from the Camp at Lake
George July 16 1758.
-<HEADS OF THE ORDERED PLAN.
"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.
"4And 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 de main and to
be of such a Size, as will admitt of a proper Defence by such a
Garrison-ye Exterior Side of which Square, cannot possibly be