 ... fort. Divisions, or partitions of logs, separated the cabins from each other. The walls on the outside were ten or twelve feet high, the slope of the roof being turned wholly inward. A very few of these cabins had puncheon floors, the greater part...  A History of the Valley of Virginia - Страница 341по Samuel Kercheval, Charles James Faulkner - 1833 - 486 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1855 - 624 страници
...few of these cabins had puncheon floors, the greater part were earthen. The blockhouses were built at the angles of the fort. They projected about two feet...stories were about eighteen inches every way larger in dimensions than the under one, leaving an opening at the commencement of the second story to prevent... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins, James R. Albach - 1857 - 1038 страници
...of these cabins had puncheon floors, the greater part were earthen. " The block houses were built at the angles of the fort. They projected about two feet...lodgment under their walls. In some forts, instead of block houses, the angles of the fort were furnished with bastions. A large folding gate, made of thick... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1859 - 696 страници
...few of these cabins had puncheon floors; the greater part were earthen. The blockhouses were built at the angles of the fort. They projected about two feet...stories were about eighteen inches every way larger in dimensions *Late in the spring of 1777, the chiefs Cornstalk, Redhawk, and another Indian, visited... | |
 | Alfred Creigh - 1871 - 520 страници
...of these cabins had 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 of the cabin and stockade. Their upper stories were about eighteen inches every way larger in dimension than... | |
 | 1875 - 806 страници
...puncheon floors, but nearly all earthen. The block-houses were built at the angles of the fort, projecting about two feet beyond the outer walls of the cabins...inches every way larger in dimension than the under ones, so as to allow the occupants to fire straight down and prevent the enemy from making a lodgment... | |
 | George Wesley Atkinson - 1876 - 376 страници
...cabins and stockades. Their upper stories were about eighteen inches every way larger in dimensions than the under one, leaving an opening at the commencement...lodgment under their walls. In some forts, instead of block -houses, the angles of the fort were furnished with bastions. A large folding gate made of thick... | |
 | George Wesley Atkinson - 1876 - 366 страници
...Doddridge, in his " Notes on Virginia," thus describes a pioneer fort : " The block-houses were built at the angles of the fort. They projected about two feet...stories were about eighteen inches every way larger in dimensions than the under one, leaving an opening at the commencement of the second story to prevent... | |
 | William Worthington Fowler - 1876 - 572 страници
...but most of the floors were earthen. At the angles of these forts were built the blockhouses, which projected about two feet beyond the outer walls of the cabins and stockade ; these upper stories were about eighteen feet, or two inches every way larger than the under... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1879 - 826 страници
...of these cabins had puncheon floors ; the greater part were earthen. The block-houses were built at the angles of the fort. They projected about two feet...stockades. Their upper stories were about eighteen feet every way, larger in every way than the under one, leaving an opening at the commencement of the... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - 1881 - 326 страници
...but the greater part of the floors were earthen. The block-houses were built at the angles of the1 fort. They projected about two feet beyond the outer...stories were about eighteen inches every way larger in dimensions than the under ones, leaving an opening at the commencement of the second story to prevent... | |
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