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Fort Pitt

Stockado

[top of page has a drawing of the Fort Pitt stockade, including features identified as "Bridge" to the fort entrance; "Ditch"; "130 feet"; "Curtain 150 ft."; "Shorter angle 55"; "Brick Barracks gone to ruin"' and "Storehouses gone to ruin."]

The above fort is fifteen feet thick of sonte
faced with brick. the ditch about the same
breadth, between that & Monogahany river
are two small Redoubts 1 1/2 brick thick, which
as usual was made a Job of &
100,000 £ Sterling - Near the fort is a
distillery well constructed, with a still
of 1500 galls. a late work by Maj. Craige but much too
large to answer _ Breed of horses not much
attended to from 14 to 16 hands, all from 20 to 30 £

July 5. Crossed the Monagahany river & mounted
the Coal hill opposite the town, in which
they have a coal, inclining to that of
kernel but not so hard or good, there
is much coal in the neighbourhood
at the summet are several farms
good land. great variety of trees,
& plants - also prickly goosberries, some
currents, black berries hops, ginsang