118 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [ FEB. 6, 
Mr. ANDREW SHERWOOD, Corresponding Member, com- 
municated a paper on! 
PREHISTORIC REMAINS FOUND IN TIOGA CO., PENN. 
Clearings made and once occupied by the red men were found 
in this valley (the Tioga) by the first settlers; while implements 
of stoneand fragments of pottery are ploughed up in several local- 
ities. When the first white man penetrated these wilds, there 
was in existence an Indian burial ground, which remained visible 
until after the year 1830, or until the construction of the Tioga 
railroad; its former location can still be pointed out by several 
of the older inhabitants, who remember seeing it. It was 
situated in a most romantic spot, just where the river enters 
the gorge below Lamb’s Creek. The exact location is indicated 
by an elm tree, about twenty rods east of the bridge which 
crosses the river, and nearly half-way between the bridge and 
the old Israel Mann house. Both the wagonroad and the rail- 
road now pass through it, so that it is entirely obliterated. It 
was originally marked by the Indians with a large stone slab 
set in the ground, some six feet in height, but containing no 
mark or inscription of any kind. The dead were buried in a 
sitting posture, and the mounds were round. Many pieces of 
pottery, as of kettles, etc., were found here when the railroad 
was built. Their largest clearing was at this place, which con- 
tained wild plum trees, bearing fruit in abundance after the 
place was known to the whites. Other clearings are described 
as having grown up to choke-cherry and other bushes, but with 
corn hills still visible. 
A very high floodin the river in the year 1870 removed about 
a foot of soil, for a distance of several rods, from the surface of 
the main road at Lamb’s Creek, where it is intersected by the 
road from the depot. This revealed a number of ancient fire- 
places, where were found charred wood, fragments of bones, 
pieces of pottery, arrow-heads, pestles, stone wedges, and vari- 
ous flint implements—most of which I now have in my posses- 
sion. The pottery was unique, having been baked from clay 
mixed with very small pebbles, and having the exterior rudely 
ornamented, all after one design, with rarely an exception, in 
which case the ware seems to have been made of clay mixed with 
fine sand and made smooth inside and out. The place must 
have been a camping ground, and the sand removed by the flood 
was doubtless placed there long before by the same agency. 
At some period in the past, probably representing a greater 
antiquity than any remains mentioned above, there was a vil- 
'The paper was read by Prof. D. S. Martin. 
