" When it was determined that the Army at Oswego should go into winter quarters, they began a new fort upon a'hill on the east side of the river about 470 yards from the old one it is 800 feet in circumference, and will command the harbour it is built of logs from 20 to 30 inches thick the wall is 14 feet high and is encompassed by a ditch 14 feet broad and ten deep; it is to contain barracks for 300 men, and to mount 16 guns. On the other side of the river, west from the old fort, another new fort is erecting; this is 170 feet square, the rampart is of Earth and Stone, 20 feet thick and 12 feet high, besides the parapet; this is also encompassed with a ditch 14 feet broad and ten feet deep, and is to contain barracks for 200 men. An hospital of framed work, 150 feet by 30, is already built, which may serve as a barrack for 200 men; and another barrack is preparing of 150 feet by 24."-- Account of American affairs in 1755, in Gentleman's Magazine, xxvi. 6. ;

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PAPERS RELATINS TO OSWEGO. themselves to accomplish my wishes.

This army will be furnished with portable cannon and munitions of war and implements generally requisite for a siege.

by brigades for Fort Frontenac.

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Since the 12 tl> instant the troops file off

the remainder of the army will have left Montreal by the