Excerpt from Burke's Descriptive Guide; Or, the Visitors' Companion to Niagara Falls: Its Strange and Wonderful Localities This fort is admirably planned in the form of a pentagon or figure of five sides. Its walls rise from the solid rock, and are seven feet thick, of blue lime stone, beautiqy wrought. Its roof is arched and covered with gypsum, and sodded with grass. It is five feet thick and perfectly bomb proof. From this roof, on which two Faixam guns are to be placed, is a magnificent view of Buffalo, Lake Erie, the Canada shore, and the river Niagara to the very Falls. This Fort occupies a most com manding position and is capable of sheltering eight hundred men, for whose comfort a pure Spring of water swells up in its midst from the solid rock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.