. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . -•■■■ ^sA^ Fort standing over toward the west was commencedby Amherst iii 1759, and completed at an expense of0\er ten mijli.)n dollars. The extensive earth-works,and the w alls of the barracks, still in a good state 0/preservation, indijate thestrength andextent of thefortification—from which,however, n ogun was everfired at ana p preachingfoe. Dr. Bix-by designatesthe shores ofthj peninsulawest of theruins li thepr.)ba )le siteo f C h a m -plains battlewith the Iro-?>,uQi-. in In absence of positive proof there is much his-toric
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . -•■■■ ^sA^ Fort standing over toward the west was commencedby Amherst iii 1759, and completed at an expense of0\er ten mijli.)n dollars. The extensive earth-works,and the w alls of the barracks, still in a good state 0/preservation, indijate thestrength andextent of thefortification—from which,however, n ogun was everfired at ana p preachingfoe. Dr. Bix-by designatesthe shores ofthj peninsulawest of theruins li thepr.)ba )le siteo f C h a m -plains battlewith the Iro-?>,uQi-. in In absence of positive proof there is much his-torical evidence to indicate that the battle didreally occur here. No historic point on the lakeis thrust forward from the west shore into moreunavoidable prominence. The land on which the ruins stand, 25 acres inextent, was presented to the State in 1910 byWitherbee, Sherman & Co., of Port Henry, to beheld forever as public property. The Champlain Memorial is erected hereat the extremity of the point. It takes the formof a monumental light house, built jointly by theStates of Vermont and New York. A heroic statueof Champlain in bronze faces the east and in the
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