338 Mr. Ranking on the Origin 



themselves Unamis ; the Turkey, Unalachtgo ; which two 

 settled between the coast and high mountains. The Wolf tribe, 

 called Minsiy were the most warlike, and lived in the rear, 

 watchino; the motions of the Mengwe. They had their council- 

 seat and fire at Minisink. These were divided into new tribes 

 and intermarried, each tribe being named after natural objects. 

 (Yates and Moulton, 32—36.) 



The Rev. S. Kirkland, in 1788, describes an ancient fort on 

 the Genesee, which inclosed six acres, and had six gates ; the 

 ditch was eight feet wide, six deep, and circular on three sides, 

 the fourth was a high bank defended by a fine stream. The 

 bank had probably been secured by a stockade, as there ap- 

 peared to have been a deep covered way down to the water. 

 Some of the trees appeared two hundred years old. Half a 

 mile south there were ruins of another of less dimensions and 

 a deeper ditch. On the river Tanawaude, distant twenty-six 

 miles, there were vestiges of a double fortified town, with six 

 gates, and like the first above-mentioned. The ditches he 

 thought had been much deeper originally. Here were the re- 

 mains of a funeral pile twenty-five feet in diameter and six high ; 

 many bones were visible. The best information Mr, K. could 

 get from the Indians was, that battles had been fought there 

 before the Senecas were admitted into the confederacy, three 

 hundred years ago, when they used arrows, spears pointed with 

 bone, and war clubs ; the latter of which were used when the 

 first were expended. They wore a coat or jacket of mail, made 

 of sticks, and a cap of the same*. Above 800 fell ; some say it 

 was four or five hundred years ago. These battles probably 

 refer to the AUegewi, who had constructed these works, and 

 were driven away down the Mississippi. Many think these were 

 the original countries of the Mexicans and ToUecas. 



May we presume that the AUeghanians and Mexicans were 

 the same people, by intermixture, and that the former erected 

 these works before the Lenape and Iroquois came, and destroyed 

 them? Many of these fortifications w^ere temples; thatof Circle- 

 ville, in Ohio, was one where human sacrifices were one of 



* Calmucs and Moguls wore the same, made of iron. 



