. Historic sites of Tay . America, because, while the native ruins in CentralAmerica and Mexico, may antedate Ste. Marie, no other building of whitemen does. One of the features of the ruin is the system of artificial trenchesmade for the protection of the place when it was in use, or what the Eng-lish translator of Isaiah would call its brooks of defence. The fortstands on a corner formed by two of these trenches, one branching off at HISTORIC SITES OF TAT a right angle -from the main trench. These may still be seen, althoughthey show less clearly than when the first settlers came, especially
. Historic sites of Tay . America, because, while the native ruins in CentralAmerica and Mexico, may antedate Ste. Marie, no other building of whitemen does. One of the features of the ruin is the system of artificial trenchesmade for the protection of the place when it was in use, or what the Eng-lish translator of Isaiah would call its brooks of defence. The fortstands on a corner formed by two of these trenches, one branching off at HISTORIC SITES OF TAT a right angle -from the main trench. These may still be seen, althoughthey show less clearly than when the first settlers came, especially theparts at the southwest corner of the fort. It was at this corner where onecould see the archway or passage for canoes and for getting water, ofwhich the old settlers used to speak, hut it has long since collapsed. A plan of Ste. Marie in 1852 by the Rev. Geo. Hallen, furnishes theaccompanying engraving made by photographic methods. This will be ofmore value to students of history than any plan in recent years, as the. Plan of Ste. Marie on the Wye. By the Rev. Geo. Hallen (in 1852) present condition of the fort scarcely admits of the making of a sketchshowing its original profile. Although the small tracing of the fort in theRev. Felix Martins Montreal edition of Bressanis Relation was copiedfrom this plan of Mr. Hallens, it lacks a number of the details of thisoriginal sketch, especially the moats. On the original sketch Mr. Hallen wTOte a note that is worthy of at-tention—In the (easterly) 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. Th
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