[Captain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by James Cook]@TWC D-Link bookCaptain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World CHAPTER 1 102/112
The first you meet with coming in from Sea is a Battery of 22 Guns, seated in the Bottom of a sandy Bay, which is on the South side of the Sugar Loaf, and can be designed for no other use than to hinder an Enemy from landing in that valley, from whence I suppose they may March up to the Town or round by the West side of the Sugar Loaf to attack the Forts that are on that side of the Entrance into the Bay, the first of which is Seated under the foot of the Sugar Loaf on a low Isthmus which joyns the Peninsula or point of the Bay with the Land of the Sugar Loaf.
It appears to be a square of Stone Work without a Ditch, with Bastions and furnished with Cannon.
A little within this fort are 2 battrys of 5 or 6 Guns each.
They are designed to play upon Shipping, but neither these battrys or the Fort are out of reach of a Ship's Cannon.
Hard by these batterys stands Fort Logie.
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