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objects that influenced them in the choice of their camping ground was a desire to investigate the condition of the old fortification, the remains of which are yet visible and which the people of the vicinity somewhat vaguely describe as the old French fort.

On examination three separate defensive works—namely a half-moon battery, magazine and block house, were found to have been built upon three separate hills or knolls, rising like successive steps from the river and about 150 yards equidistant from one another.

(See the accompanying illustration taken from a sketch made by Mr. Smith.) The block house occupied the summit or crest of the ridge, commanding an extended and uninterrupted view of the river for many miles both up and down. The river in front of the battery is quite narrow, only about a five minutes paddle across. It would seem as if nature had materially assisted in rendering this an eligible site for defence against an enemy ascending or descending the river, for it would be almost impossible for a hostile party, even with the old time ordnance, to pass this place successfully if once discovered by the garrison. The site of this old fortification is on the farm now owned by Gabriel Worden. The earth work or "Half-moon battery," as the neighbours call it, still retains its