PREHISTORIC STRUCTURES CONNECTED WITH FISHING. 



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Stone — the well-known author — for the following account of a stone structure, 

 evidently a fish-pen, in the State of New York : — 





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ROAO TO yiCTOffr MILLS 



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Fig. 346. — Stone fish-pen. Saratoga County, New York. 



"When at Saratoga Sj)rings, in the summer of 1879, Mr. Benjamin R. 

 Viele, who resides on the left or north bank of Fish Creek (the outlet of Saratoga 

 Lake, running into the Hudson), called my attention to what he considered an 

 ancient Indian work ; and accordingly, the following day, in company with Mr. 

 James M. Andrews, Jr., I drove over to his house. Mr. Viele took us in a boat 

 across Fish Creek to the spot he had described ; and the afternoon was spent in 

 a careful investigation of the work. At a point directly opposite the Viele farm- 

 house, between the creek and the high slate bank on the top of which runs the 

 road to Victory Mills, there is a large, open swamp. In this swamp, extending 

 in an irregular semi-circular form from the high bank, is a solid wall built of 

 cobble-stones, regularly laid up and ranging in Avidth from six to eight feet, and 

 enclosing an area of about half an acre. On each side of the wall a pole can be 

 run down in the marshy muck from sixteen to twenty feet. In shape it is, as 

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