. Early Mackinac. A sketch historical and descriptive . , who had been a judge advocate in thearmy, visiting Mackinac, describes the fort as aplatform enclosed with palisades. He mentions,as did Heriot, four block-houses. It was the samerude and primitive style of fortification when firstseen by Schoolcraft in 1820. It was still, however,in the early period of the century that the forttook on its present features. Its lines have been,somewhat changed and much of the stone workhas been built since the British founded it in block-houses now standing are the originals;and within the memo
. Early Mackinac. A sketch historical and descriptive . , who had been a judge advocate in thearmy, visiting Mackinac, describes the fort as aplatform enclosed with palisades. He mentions,as did Heriot, four block-houses. It was the samerude and primitive style of fortification when firstseen by Schoolcraft in 1820. It was still, however,in the early period of the century that the forttook on its present features. Its lines have been,somewhat changed and much of the stone workhas been built since the British founded it in block-houses now standing are the originals;and within the memory of all but a very few of theoldest inhabitants there have been but the threewe now see. The fourth one was near the south-east corner, perhaps on the spot of the old gun-platform on which for so many years stood the twocannon which used to give the morning and even-ing salute m the days when the fort grounds wasa garrison post. Another and much steeper paththan the present one then led up the was a very good well wi^in the ANTIQUE STYLE OF THE FORT. 4d This well and also a Powder Magazine were nearthe east Sally-Port and the present Quartermast-ers building. In its inception and planting it is a militarystructure of a century ago, and with scarcely afeature to make it a fort of to-days is a memento of the past and is replete in his-toric reminiscence. As a fortification, it is a curi-ous mixture of American frontier post and old-world castle. Its thick walls and sally-ports, andbastions and ditch, its old block-houses of logs,loop-holed for musketry, its sloping path down tothe village street buttressed along the hillsidewith heavy masonry, above which grow grass andcedars up to the foot of the overlooking oldofficers quarters—all this makes it a strikingand picturesque object, a sort of mountain fortress,and certainly something unique in this country. CHAPTER IV. The war of the revolution had been fought andAmerican independence
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