The New Hampshire Gazette

PORTSMOUTH.

Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman at Crown Point, to his Friend in Portsmouth, dated Aug. 10. 1760.

CROWN POINT is a pleasant Place: that which is called the Point, is form'd by the Lake on the N. E. Side, extending from hence to Ticonderoga, and an Arm of the Lake on the S. W. Side, which runs up about two Miles; so that the Point lies pretty near in the Form of a Peninsula. The Neck, which is about three Miles from the Extremity of the Point, is defended by a Line of Block Houses and a Breast Work: the Point is Champaign, the Soil good for Grass and Tillage, and fanned every Day with refreshing Breezes from the Lake. The Land about the Lake is mountainous. The old French Fort here, part of which is still standing was weak and inconsiderable; it was overlooked by rising Ground at a small Distance, from whence a Four Pounder might easily have beat down the upper Part of the Wall. But the new Fort which is now building, is a Grand Plan, will cost an immense deal of Money and Labour; if ever it should be finished, will, perhaps, be the strongest Fortrefs in His Majesty's Dominions. It is an irregular Pentagon with five Bastions and five Redoubts at irregular Distances, the farthest of them 350 Yards: the Fort stands on about seven Acres of Land; the Wall at the Platform is 40 Feet thick, made of Timber and Earth; a Casement round the Wall in the inside 20 Foot deep; the Trench round the Wall, which is making out of a solid Rock, is to be near 14 Feet deep and of the same width; and the Glacis round the Trench is to be made with Stone and Lime, the Foot of it to extend to the Redoubts, and the Top to be Horizontal with the Platforms in the Fort. By these Hints you may form some Conceptions of the Strength of this Forress when finished. The Lake opposite to the Point is not more than 10 Miles across, but a little below widens to 14 Miles across.

Two hundred and eighty four of the New Hampshire Regiment were joined to the Rangers yesterday; the Remainder have this Day joined the Train of Royal Artillery; the Strength of the Army who were to embark is near 2000, and all in high Spirits.