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History

These sev eral features of the place formed a natural fortification of great strength.

But there were yet other features rendering it even more formidable.

Running into its south-eastern boundary were two promontories, a hun dred and fifty feet in length, thirty in height, with perpendicular walls parallel to each other and about thirty feet apart, making a scarped moat which could not be passed.

At the north end of the eastern promontory the Indians had erected a fort of stone, twenty feet in diameter, breast-high, pierced with loop-holes; and on the western promontory two larger forts of similar construction.

Between this fortress and the bluff where the scouts were stationed were huge masses of rocks of every size and contour.