. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . sterly) Bastion is an instance of the flank of a bastionbeing curved with its convexity towards the interior of the work, insteadof being rectilinear. The original sketch also furnishes us with meansfor the measurement of the dimensions of the fort. The curtains on thetwo sides fortified by stonework are approximately 110 and 57 feet inlength; while the extreme measurements in
. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . sterly) Bastion is an instance of the flank of a bastionbeing curved with its convexity towards the interior of the work, insteadof being rectilinear. The original sketch also furnishes us with meansfor the measurement of the dimensions of the fort. The curtains on thetwo sides fortified by stonework are approximately 110 and 57 feet inlength; while the extreme measurements in straight lines along the samesides (i. e. including the widest reaches of the bastions) are about 165 and110 feet. The distance from the fort to the river is 44 yards. The trenchalong the southerly end does not continue in this diagram beyond the HISTORIC SITES OF TAY stonework, but it did actually continue in a southerly direction to Mud Lake,thus giving double access for water coming into the trenches. As every observer records features that do not strike another obser-ver, it may be interesting to compare Mr. Hallens plan with one made byPeter Burnet, P. L. Surveyor, who sketched the place in 1876. The latter. plan includes all the environs on the west half of lot 16, but we reproducetherefrom only the fortification itself. The structures marked by Mr. Bur-net along the western side are still extant. The visitor to Ste. Marie at the present day will observe how thetrenches are now entirely destitute of water, the river being many feetbelow, and incapable of filling them. On the day the writer first measuredthe amount of this drop (September 13, 1901), it was ten feet from the 6 HISTORIC SITES OF TAY surface of the river to the top of the bank, where the main trench brow of this bank has probably suffered from denudation, and thefort itself is now more than forty yards distant on slightly higher it would appear to require at least twelve feet of a rise to
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