 ... 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 - Page 341by Samuel Kercheval, Charles James Faulkner - 1833 - 486 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - Unitarianism - 1836 - 740 pages
...nail nor a spike of iron was used, for "such things were not to be had." "Block-houses were built at the angles of the fort. They projected about two feet beyond the outer walls of the cabins, and the stockade. Their upper stories were about eighteen inches every way larger in dimension than the... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - Indiana - 1843 - 482 pages
...intellectual talent, bravery, and misfortune." — Doddrldge, 237 — Drake, book T. e. ill, p. 48. 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... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 562 pages
...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...the cabins and stockades. Their upper stories were afeout eighteen inches every way larger in dimension than the under one, leaving an opening at the... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 596 pages
...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 beyond the outer walls of tba cabins and stockades. Their upper stories were about eighteen inches every way larger in dimension... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins - Indians of North America - 1847 - 630 pages
...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...prevent the enemy from making a lodgment under their wails. In some forts instead of blockhouses, the angles of the fort were furnished with bastions. A... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - Kentucky - 1852 - 364 pages
...with a broadaxe' ; but the greater part of the floors were earthen. 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 ones, leaving an opening at the commencement of the second story to prevent... | |
 | Elizabeth Fries Ellet - Frontier and pioneer life - 1852 - 488 pages
...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...stockades. Their upper stories were about eighteen inches or two feet every way larger than the under one, leaving an opening at the commencement of the second... | |
 | Ben Casseday - Louisville (Ky.) - 1852 - 310 pages
...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...beyond the outer walls of the cabins and stockades. The upper stories were about eighteen inches every way larger in dimension than the under one, leaving... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - Kentucky - 1852 - 334 pages
...Their upper 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 the enemy from SETTLEMENT OF HARRODSTOWN. 29 making a lodgment under the walls. A large folding-gate, made of thick... | |
 | Joseph Smith - Pennsylvania - 1854 - 490 pages
...few of the 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 inches larger every way than the under one, leaving an opening where the second story began to prevent the... | |
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