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the bills immediately north and west of the present village of 

 Victor; and their chief town, called Gannagaro by Denonville, 

 was on the top of Boughton's Hill, about a mile and a quarter dis- 

 tant. Immense quantities of Indian remains were formerly found 

 here, and many are found to this day. Charred corn has been 

 turned up in abundance by the plough, showing that the place was 

 destroyed by fire. The remains of the fort burned by the French 

 are still plainly visible on a hill a mile and a quarter from the an- 

 cient town. A plan of it will be found in Squier's Aboriginal 

 Monuments of New York. The site of the three other Seneca towns 

 destroyed by Denonville, and called Totiakton, Gannondata, and 

 Gannongarae, can also be identified. See Marshall, in Collections 

 N. Y. Hist. Soc, 2d Series, II. Indian traditions of historical 

 events are usually almost worthless ; but the old Seneca chief 

 Dyunehogawah, or "John Blacksmith," who was living a few 

 years ago at the Tonawanda reservation, recounted to Mr. Mar- 

 shall with remarkable accuracy the story of the battle as handed 

 down from his ancestors who lived at Gannagaro, close to the 

 scene of action. Gannagaro was the Canagorah of Wentworth 

 Greenalgh's Journal. The old Seneca, on being shown a map of 

 the locality, placed his finger on the spot where the fight took 

 place, and which was long known to the Senecas by the name of 

 Dyagodiyu, or " The Place of a Battle." It answers in the most 

 perfect manner to the French contemporary descriptions. 



