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sive, reaching over into the town of Perufret, where a hill, known now as 

 Fort Hill, gives unequivocal testimony of the work of man. Between 

 Fort Hill and Mr. Gould's farm is found a hill about 30 feet high, with 

 a circumference at its base of about 90 paces. The top of this hill is 

 flat, oval in outline, and composed, as far as examined, of the material 

 constituting the surface formation of the plain. The hill may possi- 

 bly have beeu formed by currents of water, but there is no bluff or 

 bank near it. It stands about 3 miles inland from the lake, and was 

 originally covered with large forest trees in nowise differing from the 

 trees of the surrounding plain. Mr. Gould, over seventy years of age, 

 says he well remembers the hill as it was in his childhood, and that it was 

 so conspicuously above the surrounding trees as to be regarded as a 

 landmark by early navigators of Lake Erie. He describes one tree, 

 which grew near the top of the hill, as being 4 feet in diameter. Care- 

 ful examination of the plain gave no depression in the surface to indi- 

 cate that the earth which composes the hill was excavated there. I 

 am inclined to the opinion tbat the hill is in reality a mound, and that 

 it was in some way connected with the other fortifications already men- 

 tioned. In this connection I may mention that some years ago, in 

 plowing a field on his farm, Mr. Williams, of the town of Sheridan, 

 turned up as much as two bushels of flint spalls or chips, and a number 

 of arrow and spear heads. These were pretty much all together, and led 

 Mr. Williams to suppose that Indians made their tools there. Some of 

 these implements, in outline and material, very nearly, if not entirely, 

 correspond to those found in Ohio, near what is called Flint Eidge. I 

 believe that flint or chert is not to be found in this county. Whether 

 the crude stone was brought to the place where the flints were found, and 

 was there worked into shape, cannot be settled as yet. Some fifty-odd 

 years ago I saw a large field in what is now the city of Zanesville, Ohio, 

 plowed up for the first time. The whole field was dotted over with 

 flakes, spalls, arrow and spear heads, stone hammers, and axes, indica 

 tive of a manufactory. Old and partly decayed stumps were overturned 

 or pulled up and the spalls were found under them. From this field to 

 Flint Eidge there was nearly a continuous water communication. There 

 are grounds for believing that the material was origmally quarried at 

 Flint Eidge, where numerous excavations, partially filled up, are to be 

 found, and having trees growing in them. Whether the persons or 

 people who wrought in Sheridan were located there we do not know, 

 neither can we safely say that the implements found were made by 

 those who erected the fortifications. 



I have an amulet which w^s plowed up on the farm of Mr. Prender- 

 gast, in the town of Westfield, this county, and by him presented to me. 

 It somewhat resembles Fig. 27 in Colonel Foster's work, "Prehistoric 

 Eaces," page 222, which he calls a totem. His totem was found in Wis- 

 consin ; the amulet was found in Chautauqua County. I will give my 

 reasons for regarding these effigies as amulets in an article now pre- 



