. Onondaga, or, Reminiscences of earlier and later times [microform] being a series of historical sketches relative to Onondaga ; with notes on the several towns in the county, and Oswego. ded to Niagara and Detroit. Itwas also a favorite resting place for the troops passing andre-passing from Fort Stanwix to Oswego, Niagara and back,and is often mentioned in the diary of Sir William Johnson,and other English officers of that period. There are no ac-counts extant of battles having been fought at this place ; butfrom appearances, and the number of human bones found inthe vicinity, and which are
. Onondaga, or, Reminiscences of earlier and later times [microform] being a series of historical sketches relative to Onondaga ; with notes on the several towns in the county, and Oswego. ded to Niagara and Detroit. Itwas also a favorite resting place for the troops passing andre-passing from Fort Stanwix to Oswego, Niagara and back,and is often mentioned in the diary of Sir William Johnson,and other English officers of that period. There are no ac-counts extant of battles having been fought at this place ; butfrom appearances, and the number of human bones found inthe vicinity, and which are frequently disinterred even at thisday, it is but reasonable to suppose, that severe battles haveat some remote period, been fought by Indians on thisground. The fort when built by the English, was consideredof great consequence to the safety and protection of the fron-tier. It was a regular octagon, about three hundred and fifty feetin diameter, surrounded by a wall of earth about five feet high,above the interior area of the works. In front of this wall,was a ditch about ten feet deep, from the top of the inside TOWNS.—CICERO. 181 (9 VIEW OF FORT BREWERTON AND VICINITY— —A—Fort. X—Ditch. O—Wells. M—Covered —DitLh six feet deep. G—Tlock House. E—TIaiik Road. K—Bridg^e. C—Toll House. B—Brewertoii and Sheds. D—Island. F—AncientMole for Sentry-box. L—Colfer-dam. H—Sand-bank. 1—Mound filled withHuman Cones. 182 ONONDAGA. wall, encompassing the whole. In front of the ditch, encir-cling the whole, was another embankment, not quite as highas the interior one, corresponding to it in all its lines and an-gles, with a covered gateway on the south side, facing theriver. In the interior embankment was set a row of pali-sades, about twenty feet high, with loop holes and is situated on a gentle elevation, about forty rods from theriver ; and when garrisoned and armed for war, could easilycommand the pas
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