. Ticonderoga: past and present. "Mixed." A companion to "Lake George, illustrated." . e one commenced bv Baron Dieskau in1755. The chain or floating bridge extended fromnear the steamboat landing to the point on theopposite shore where you will find, near the footof the hill, the water battery, and, higher uj), linesof breastworks; while on the summit is the ruins ofwhat, in 76, was a picket fort, surrounding a squareof barracks. Here are the graves of many soldiers,their last resting ])lace marked by little, roughheadstones — nameless, all but one, and that aname unknown. 56 TiCONDEROGA. Ret
. Ticonderoga: past and present. "Mixed." A companion to "Lake George, illustrated." . e one commenced bv Baron Dieskau in1755. The chain or floating bridge extended fromnear the steamboat landing to the point on theopposite shore where you will find, near the footof the hill, the water battery, and, higher uj), linesof breastworks; while on the summit is the ruins ofwhat, in 76, was a picket fort, surrounding a squareof barracks. Here are the graves of many soldiers,their last resting ])lace marked by little, roughheadstones — nameless, all but one, and that aname unknown. 56 TiCONDEROGA. Returning to the old fort, we find at the south-west corner, just outside of the barracks, the sur-face broken and thrown up into grassy mounds, marking the positionof one of the threeunderground roomswhich existed at thetime Amherst tookpossession of thefort; the second isfound in a similarcondition to the first,at the north-westcorner; the door andentrance from thecellar of the officersquarters being quitewell preserved along thehollow that seems tomark the course of. THE BARRACK WINDOW, an underground passage to the north-east corner,you stand over the third, which is one of the bestpreserved portions of the ruins. To enter 3^ouclimb down into the cellar, now nearlv filled withbroken stones and overrun with vines, and, stoop-ing low, make your way through the openingbefore you. The r^lAGAZixE. 57
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