Jamestowne being burnt, we rebuilt it and three forts more . . . invironed with a palizado of fourteen or fifteene feet, and each as much as three or four men could carrie . . . we had three Bulwarkes, foure and twenty peeces of ordnance of Culvering, Demiculvering, sacar and falcon and most well mounted upon convenient platforms . . . .

John Smith, Summer 1608