Report of the [undecipherable] and State of the Works & Public Buildings at Michilimackinac as delivered to Major Henry Burbeck of the Artillery of the United States by [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] Lieutenant [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] Regiment of foot — September [undecipherable] 1797 The Fort — is on a [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] is the principal [place] of [defence?] [undecipherable] towards the [undecipherable] and to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] order. The front towards the [undecipherable] bearing [undecipherable] from it and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] order Ground in front of the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] in the left which [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] line. Such parts of the [undecipherable] that are [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] strongly [undecipherable] The Barracks — at [present?] [undecipherable] by the [undecipherable] of a [undecipherable] of Log Buildings eighty and a half feet long & twenty one feet wide. The Officers [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Rooms [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] half [undecipherable] long — all [undecipherable] Rooms within [undecipherable] — the front [undecipherable] and fifteen and a half [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — the [Barracks?] is a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Buildings [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the Barracks have been [undecipherable] that within [undecipherable] they are One Hundred and [undecipherable] feet long Thirty [undecipherable] feet wide. The Walls are [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] are [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] feet [undecipherable] The Provision Store House — is a Log Buildings One Hundred and [undecipherable] feet long and twenty feet wide — has [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — it is [undecipherable] The Generals [undecipherable] House — is of Wood [undecipherable] and a half feet long [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] a half [undecipherable] wide — it is in good order The [undecipherable] Major [undecipherable] — is of Stone thirty [undecipherable] feet long and twenty three and a half feet wide with a stone [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] window reaching the floor. [undecipherable] it is in very good order [undecipherable] the floor. The above described Buildings are all within the Fort. The Government House — is One Hundred and [undecipherable] feet long and [undecipherable] feet wide [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] body of the House only [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. 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The Council Room — is of Wood Twenty one feet long & fourteen and a half feet wide — it is in good order, excepting the Floor and Windows The Bake House — is of Wood Twenty four feet long and twenty two feet wide — it is in very bad order, excepting the Oven which is good The [undecipherable: probable reading Ingenmen's] Store House — is of Wood Forty one feet long & sixteen feet wide — the walls are good but the Roof is bad The Barrack Master's House — is of Wood Thirty three feet long & twenty feet wide and totally out of order The Baths — are of Wood Thirty Six feet long and twenty eight feet wide — They are in bad order The Picket House — is of Wood Thirty feet long & seventeen feet wide — has a Stone Chimney and is in bad order Commandant's Garden — is Five Hundred and forty feet long and one hundred and sixty seven feet wide — the fences and Gates are good, it is in very good order and filled with Vegetables The [undecipherable] Garden — is two hundred and forty three feet long and one hundred and seventy three feet wide; the fence is good, it is filled with Potatoes The Government Park — is of an irregular figure about fourteen Hundred & Seventy Yards in Circumference, well inclosed & laid down in grass [signature] All the Wood works, picketings, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] built [undecipherable] new, nothing can be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] lower the Stone [undecipherable] Walls [H. Burbeck?] [undecipherable] Commanding [seal] [marginalia: Report of the State of the Works at Michilimackinac]