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PAPERS RELATING TO FORT STANWIX.

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.

It. The Oswegagie Indian Path.

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

All the ground from the Mark * to the Mahawk river is of one and the same nature and allthe Ground without that to where the ground begins to rise is of a Swampy nature, but of a Richsoil, but lying so much below' the Interval Lands are wet & impassible without being drained.

The part that is marked for Stoney ground is composed of Round pebble stones mixed withGravel and Sand, till you dig 6 foot deep, then small Gravel and Sand .

The ground where the Fort is built is 19 foot higher than the Swamps and low Lands and descendgradually to Fort Newport.

The Land marked for level ground to the east of Oswegagie Path falls about 8 foot below thehigh land and is level good arrable Land, but not interval.

Thro’ the Swamp 0 runs severall small Creeks w ch beingjoined at P make what is called StoneyCreek, w ch atmidling dry Seasons is too shallow to float Batteaus to Fort Bull for which Reason alittle above P there is a Dam and Sluice to Raise a head of Water in the Swamp 0. The Sluice isshut 6 or 8 hours before the Batteaus are to go to and from Fort Bull, when ready, it is opened w chgives w'ater sufficient to float them.

The Portage as the Road runs over the Carrying Place is 5940 feet but the Streight Prickt Line Sis about 4930 feet thro the Spine Swamp w ch is nearly on a level, thro’ w ch if a Ditch was cutLoaded Batteaus might go and have no Portage att all, besides by a Sluice it might be madea dry or a Navigable channel at Pleasure. •

All within the Line of trees as marked in the Plan is cleared; all the rest of the Country is cov-ered with tall Timber Trees, and but little underwoods; The Swamp on the S. W‘ of F l Stanwix,is chiefly Pine and some White Cedar ; There are also some white Pines in the Swamp on the Eastside of the Fort, all the rest of the woods are Elm, Beach, Rock Maple, Birtcli, Popplar , and afew Trees of the wild Cherry kind ; The Plan is laid down by a Scale of 400 B to an Inch from anactual Survey Taken in Nov r 1758.