mertins

Some writers have reprefented thefe walls to be four feet in thicknefs, but they are mif - taken: they are built of ftone, the parapet of the curtains does not exceed twenty inches, and the mertins, at the flank - fires, are fomewhat thicker, though not near three feet.

A general history of the British empire in America : containing an historical, political, and commercial view of the English settlements ; including all the countries in North-America, and the West-Indies, ceded by the peace of Paris 1770