AEEOW-HEADS FROM FISHKILL, N. Y. dOT 



found. Most of the skeletons quickly crumbled upon exposure to the 

 air. From Mr. Gibson, the owner, I obtained a large and well shaped 

 skull. The under jaw is still attached, and most of the teeth remain. 



On a former visit I picked up a numberof bones that were lying loosely 

 around after the attempt at leveling. The skeletons were surrounded 

 by large fiat stones set on their edges. These stones were brought from 

 the hills, as there are none like them in the bottom. The earth of which 

 the mound was built was also brought from a distance. It is quite dif- 

 ferent in color and quality from that near by. Some charcoal is found 

 mixed in it. Flint chippiugs and arrow-heads are still lying around. 

 Formerly various stone implements were fonnd in the neighborhood. 

 Last spring a colored man was plowing on the farm of Mr. 0. B. Easby, 

 on the hill-side, in sight of the mound, and less than half a mile from it. 

 lu the turning over of the sod he discovered an ancient cache. The 

 stock or collection consisted of axes, hatchets, tomahawks, hoes, wedges, 

 and a chain on which were strung several of the tomahawks. There were 

 over twenty iron implements in all. Ko two of even the same kind were 

 of the same size or shape ; but one of the hoes was almost identical in 

 shape and size with the hoes made for the Southern cotton -fields. Is it 

 probable that the same race and generation used both the iron and stone 

 implements? The iron tools have a very thick coating of rust upon them, 

 and are evidently among the first iron implements ever used by any 

 people in the valley of the Mahoning. 



Near the mound once stood the Indian village of Kushkushkee, or Kas- 

 kaskunk. Pakanke, the Delaware chief, and Glikkikan, a celebrated 

 orator of the Delaware tribe, lived here. It is probable that Christian 

 Frederick Post visited the Indians in this town, by appointment of the 

 governor of Pennsylvania, in 1758. "Again, in 1761, Post repeated his 

 visit ; not on this occasion in the capacity of a political envoy, but as 

 an ambassador of the gospel." — Blade Robes. 



This was the year before the establishing of the Moravian missionary 

 station and the founding of Friedenstadt, nine miles below on the Bea- 

 ver River, near the present town of Moravia. 



DEPOSIT OF ARROW-nEADS NEAR FISHKILL, X. T. 



By EowaN M. Siiepard, of Norfolk, Conn. 



This interesting discovery of arrow-heads was made upon the farm of 

 Mr. George Allerton, at Green Haven, Dutchess County, New York. 

 The fiirm is situated in a beautiful valley about twelve miles from Fish- 

 kill on the Hudson. It seems that there were several bog-holes scattered 

 about the place, each, perhaps, 25 to 40 feet in diameter. They have a 

 few inches o"f water and several feet of rich muck, and are the resort of 

 numerous frogs, turtles, and snakes. Last July Mr. Eedevaty, thinking 



