The fort consisted of cabins, block-houses and stockades. A range of cabins commonly formed one side at least of the fort. Divisions, or partitions of log.?, separated the cabins from each other. The walls on the outside were ten or twelve feet high,... A History of the Valley of Virginia - Страница 341по Samuel Kercheval - 1833 - 486 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1836 - 740 страници
...with - Jacobs' Life of Cresap, 27. t Kenning, VIII.— 252— 246. Henning, IX.— 143 a roof sloping inward. A very few of these cabins had puncheon* floors; the greater number had earthen ones. Where the cabins did not extend, pickets were firmly let into the earth to... | |
| John Brown Dillon - 1843 - 482 страници
..."A range of cabins commonly formed one side at least of the fort. Divisions, or partitions of logs, separated the cabins from each other. The walls on...part were earthen. The block-houses were built at the *Lato in the spring of 1777, the chiefs Cornstalk, Rcdhawk, and another Indian visited the fort at... | |
| Henry Howe - 1845 - 596 страници
...A range of cabins commonly formed one side at least of th'e fort Divisions, or partitions of logs, separated the cabins from each other. The walls on the outside were tenor twelve feet high, the slope of the roof being turned wholly inward. A very few of these cabins... | |
| James Handasyd Perkins - 1847 - 630 страници
...stockades. A range of cabins commonly formed one side at least of the fort. Divisions, or partitions of logs separated the cabins from each other. The walls on the outside were ten or twelve feel high, the slope of the roof being turned wholly inward. A very few of these cabins had puncheon... | |
| Wills De Hass - 1851 - 444 страници
...A range of cabins commonly formed one side at least of the fort. Divisions, or partitions of logs, separated the cabins from each other. The walls on...the slope of the roof being turned wholly inward. Very few of these cabins had puncheon floors, the greater part were earthen. The blockhouses were built... | |
| Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - 1852 - 334 страници
...formed at least one side of the fort. Divisions, or partitions of logs, separated these rude dwellings from each other. The walls on the outside were ten or twelve feet high, the slope of the roof being invariably inward. A few of these cabins had puncheon floors, which were formed by splitting trees... | |
| Elizabeth Fries Ellet - 1852 - 488 страници
...were ten or twelve feet high, with a roof sloping inward. Some of the cabins had puncheon floors, but the greater part were earthen. " The blockhouses were built at the angles of the fort, and projected about two feet beyond the outer walls of the cabins and stockades. Their upper stories... | |
| Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 страници
...A range of cabins commonly formed one side at least of the fort. Divisions, or partitions of logs, separated the cabins from each other. The walls on the outside were tenor twelve feet high, the slope of the roof being turned wholly inward. A very few of these cabins... | |
| Joseph Smith - 1854 - 490 страници
...men. The fort consisted of cabins, and block-houses, and stockades. Divisions or partitions of logs separated the cabins from each other. The walls on...the roof being turned wholly inward. A very few of the cabins had puncheon floors. The greater part were earthen. The block-houses were built at the angles... | |
| James Handasyd Perkins, James R. Albach - 1857 - 1038 страници
...A range of cabins commonly formed one side at least of the fort. Divisions, or partitions of logs, separated the cabins from each other. The walls on...puncheon floors, the greater part were earthen. " The block houses were built at the angles of the fort. They projected about two feet beyond the outer walls... | |
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