English: Description by G. W. Featherstonhaugh: "This was the general plan adopted by the whites for the protection of their families against the Indians; and certainly the block-house appears to be a very convenient and efficacious building for the purpose it is intended to serve. The one we saw was about twenty feet square, and was built thus:—next to the ground were six round logs about twenty-one feet long, laid upon each other, and well mortised: next came a log about twenty-four feet long, on the west side, and a similar one on the other sides, all well mortised. In this way a projection—even with the floor that divides the upper chamber of the block-house from the lower one—is formed beyond the ground-tier of logs, upon which an upper wall of round logs is built, after which the building is roofed in. Upon the roof pieces of wood are fixed for the garrison to step upon and extinguish any fire the Indians might succeed in setting to it with their arrows. Loop-holes also are made in the logs of the upper chamber to enable them to fire at any of the Indians who ventured to show themselves; as well as others in the projecting part of the floor, from whence they could fire perpendicularly down upon their besiegers, if they should attempt to run up to the block-house to set fire to it."