Cannatchocari, has no ditch ; there's only a large swing door at the entrance.

Leaving Fort Hunter a creek 2 is passed at the mouth of which the fort is located.

It can be forded,

and crossed in batteaux in summer and on the ice in winter. There are some houses outside under the protection of the Fort in which the country people seek shelter when they fear or learn that an Indian or French war party is in the field.

From Fort Hunter to Chenectedi or Corlar is seven leagues. The public carriage way continues along About 20 to 30 houses are found within this distance separated the one from the other from about a quarter to half a league. The Inhabitants of this section are the right bank of the Mohawk river.

Little Falls.

2 Schoharie Creek.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE ONEIDA COUNTRY AND MOHAWK VALLEY.

Dutch.

They form a company with some other inhabitants of the left bank of the Mohawk river,

about 100 men strong. Chenectedi or Corlar, situated on the bank of the Mohawk river, is a village of about 300 houses. Entering this village by the It is surrounded by upright pickets, flanked from distance to distance.

Hunter side, there is a fort to the right which forms a species of citadel in the inIt is a square, flanked with four bastions or demi-bastions, and is conterior of the village itself. gate on the Fort

structed half of masonry and half of timbers piled one over the other above the masonry.