Correspondence of Governor Sharp e. 561

tried where the Fact shall really appear to have been com-
mitted.
I am Sir
Your most obedient
and most humble Servant
William Denny

[Morris to Sharpe.]

Camp at Crown Point August 13^th 1759.
Dear Sir
On the fourth of this month, we took Possession of Crown
Point the French having abandon'd & set Fire to the Fort, on
the first or second, in which they did no great Damage for the
Fort, was very trifling, the Figure a Square; Rampart 12 feet,
Parapet about two Feet thick, the Ditch narrow, & shallow, &
by all appearance they had no Artillery here; the Place being
so little defensible it would scarce have been prudent to have
trusted any in it. The Fort was situated close to the Water
on a point of Land to the North East but commanded by all
the Ground about it. The Lake at this pass I dont suppose
is more than 250 yards, which I take to have been the prin-
cipal Reason for placing the Fort so injudiciously.
After what I have said you will immediately conjecture we
are going to improve on the Errors of our Enemy, who made
no better use of this important spot, where so insignificant a
Fortification could be esteem'd impregnable, & strike a Terror
into all the Northern Colonies.
The Ground is mostly flat & something near a Peninsula,
which extends for about 12 or 15 hundred yards or more
Diameter three parts of the Circumference surrounded by the
Lake on the East & North, & a large Bay stretching up the
Westward, there are some Highths in the Middle, which we
have chose to erect a Fort, (which are occupied by five Bas-
tions) a Pentagon is to be the Form of it. & it will contain at
least 1000 Men. The only Difficulty will be to finish it, for
tho: tis to be logwork, yet digging the Ditches will be tedious,
there being an Intire Bed of Stone, on three sides, after you
have dug two feet of Earth. The Land about this extremely
fertile.
As we want Intelligence from M^r Wolf, tis a Doubt whether
we shall forward till his situation is known, of which Methods
are taken to be inform'd, however a Report prevails in Camp
that he has opend his Batteries as near as he would chuse, &
every one who knows him says that must be point blank.
General Amherst is belov'd by the whole Army, his Success
declares his Abilitys, & confirms the high Opinion I always
conceived of him & often declared.