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The old Frencli fort of 1690 stood on lot 106, but traces of it can now 

 bo found only by digging. An Indian village grew up about it, and 

 there was a burial-ground farther south. In [Syracuse there were also 

 orchards and burial-places. 



Totcn of Onondaga. — Sir William Johnson built the Onondagas a 

 stockade in 1756, whicli was burned in 1779. It stood on a plateau on 

 Webster's Mile Square, and the inclined roadway by which it was 

 reached from the creek yet remains. The writer recently examined and 

 fully described this site. The several burial-places and other sites in 

 this town are all modern, and yield European and Indian relics. Yet a 

 stone plummet and a bird totem were found at the present reservation, 

 the latter worn as an ornament by an Indian girl. 



40. Toicn of Be Witt.— A burial-place was discovered in East Syra- 

 cuse, lot 42, in 1878, from which many skeletons were taken. They were 

 inclosed in rude stone cists, whicli yielded also clay pijies, arrow-heads, 

 and celts. Xear Jamesville fine stone pipes have been found. 



41. Town of La Fayette. — On lot 3, east side of the reservoir, is the 

 site of the large fort destroyed in 1696, during Froutenac's invasion. It 

 was a stockade and earthwork, and the remains are both Indian and 

 European. Several burial-places occur in this vicinity. 



42. On lot 13 was a large Indian orchard and a settlement, which was 

 abandoned on the invasion of 1779. 

 The relics are both Indian and 

 European. A burial-place has the 

 graves in rows, and also scattered 

 promiscuously. The bodies were 

 inclosed in boxes of wood or bark. 

 {Clarlc.) 



Toicn of Pompey. — This has mauy 

 sites, nearly all historic, and fully 

 described by Clark, but with some 

 errors. 



43. At this point is a village site, 

 which had circular lines of stone 

 and relics of mixed origin. {Clarlc.) 



44. A little south of the last named 

 is a burial-place, and also lines of 

 earthworks, with similar remains. 

 {CJar'k.) 



45. On lot 19 was a village site 

 with four streets and mixed relics. 

 [Clark.) 



46. On lot 9 is Indian Hill, i)robably the Onondaga Castle of 1650. 

 Clark describes the settlement as about a mile long, with a burial-place 

 of 30 acres, but makes an overestimate again. He describes the earth- 

 work as elliptical. European relics are found there yet. It may extend 

 slightly into lot 20. 



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