. 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 . jf $ x^> l^L -^*-Jc- -£&&^e^^i; -e^t^A ct^x^(_ ^A-e-«z^A hj^o^-c^s <r% i£<t&/6? . fort. The curtains on the two sides fortified by stonework are ap-proximately 110 and 57 feet in length: while the extreme measure-ments in straight lines along the same sides (i. e. including the widestreaches of the bastions) are about 165 and 110 feet. The distancefrom the fort tothe r
. 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 . jf $ x^> l^L -^*-Jc- -£&&^e^^i; -e^t^A ct^x^(_ ^A-e-«z^A hj^o^-c^s <r% i£<t&/6? . fort. The curtains on the two sides fortified by stonework are ap-proximately 110 and 57 feet in length: while the extreme measure-ments in straight lines along the same sides (i. e. including the widestreaches of the bastions) are about 165 and 110 feet. The distancefrom the fort tothe river is 44 yards. The trench along the southerly 15 end is not continued in the diagram beyond the stonework, but somehave observed this to be continued in a southeasterly direction to MudLake, thus giving double access for water coming into the the event of a siege, if one course should be stopped the other mightbe kept open. As every observer will invariably record features that do notstrike another observer acting independently, it may be interestingto compare Mr. Hallens plan with one made by Peter Burnet, P. L-Surveyor, who sketched the place in 187G. The latter plan, whichalso be
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