The city of Hochelaga is round compassed about with timber, with three courses of rampires [stockades], one within another, framed like a sharp spire, but laid across above.

The middlemost of them is made and built as a direct line but perpendicular.

The rampires are framed and fashioned with pieces of timber laid along on the ground, very well and cunningly joined together after their fashion.

This enclosure is in height about two rods.

It hath but one gate of entry thereat, which is shut with piles, stakes, and bars.