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The Pontiac Manuscript
planks, two inches thick, and the boards raised to the height of feet of
the same double planks as below, so that men could stand upright in the vessels safe from musket shots. In the beak of each vessel was placed a swivel gun which swept in three different directions. These vessels were placed in the middle of the river before the fort, and everything succeeded as well as could be expected.
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