. Ticonderoga: past and present. "Mixed." A companion to "Lake George, illustrated.". CARILLON. lESKAU moved from Fort St. Fred-erick in the summer of 1755 to fortifyTiconderoga, as a protection againstJohnsons force, then marching towardCrown Point; but, hearing that he wasthen at the head of Lake George withthe greater part of his force, leaving Fort Lyman(Edward) in a defenseless condition, the brave oldbaron, whose motto was ^ valor wins, decided toadvance upon it at once. The result of the move-ment is detailed in the account of the battle ofLake George. At that time he commenced a forti-

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. Ticonderoga: past and present. "Mixed." A companion to "Lake George, illustrated.". CARILLON. lESKAU moved from Fort St. Fred-erick in the summer of 1755 to fortifyTiconderoga, as a protection againstJohnsons force, then marching towardCrown Point; but, hearing that he wasthen at the head of Lake George withthe greater part of his force, leaving Fort Lyman(Edward) in a defenseless condition, the brave oldbaron, whose motto was ^ valor wins, decided toadvance upon it at once. The result of the move-ment is detailed in the account of the battle ofLake George. At that time he commenced a forti-fication, which was completed the ensuing year,and called Carillon, meaning music, racket,a chime of bells, perhaps suggested b} the per-petual chiming of the sounding waters near Indian name of Ticonderoga has been vari-ously spelled, owing, probably, to the known diffi-culty of finding just the right letter to express acertain sound in a different tongue from our word seems to mean the meeting of waters,rather than the explanation usually given of sound-ing waters

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