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result than that they came upon a layer of ashes at a shallow depth. 

 A little digging was done in this mound and a biperf orated stone 

 gorget found.'' 



An Old Burying Ground 



An important discovery was made at Chautauqua, Monday. It was the 

 fact that the famous assembly grounds, or a part of them at least, are 

 located on the old-time burying grounds. The discovery was made by 

 workmen who were excavating for a cellar under the cottage of Miss Eddy, 

 which is located on the lake front, not far from the pier, in the direction 

 of the J. & L. E. railway station. While digging in the soft earth a human 

 skull was produced ; then came other parts of a body ; and immediately 

 thereafter were found other skulls and human bones, until before the com- 

 pletion of the work at least a dozen skeletons had been unearthed, the 

 bodies having apparently been buried in one mammoth grave. Few of the 

 bones other than the skulls were in a good state of preservation. Four of 

 the skulls, however, were well preserved and six or eight others only 

 partially decomposed. (Jamestown Journal) 



At Griffiths Point there was a mound in a level meadow about 60 

 rods east of the Griffith House and 80 rods from the lake. \Ye 

 found this mound 35 feet in diameter and 4 feet higher than the 

 grassy ground around it. In the meadow land, southwest of this 

 mound and distant about 100 feet, there had been a larger mound 

 \vhich had been quite recently removed. A few bones were found, 

 among them the skull probably of a bear. The circular place that 

 apparently was occupied by the mound was 60 feet in diameter when 

 Mr Bugbee saw it a few days before 1875, and twice as high as the 

 first mound. West of the most westerly of these mounds a modern 

 driveway then extended north and south from the lake road to the 

 Griffith House. Ten feet west of this driveway and parallel with it 

 extended a belt of land, distinctly higher than the land on either side 

 of it, and about the width of the ordinary travelled part of a country 

 turnpike. It extended unbroken for about 25 rods toward the lake 

 road. For about 10 rods it was obscure or indistinct when it 

 appeared again extending as before toward the higher land easterly 

 of the lake. In the vicinity of these mounds and along the shore of 

 the lake many arrowheads have been found. 



Ellicott. 1 " There are two Indian mounds in the town (Ellicott) 

 filled with human bones, one at Dexterville (city of Jamestown) and 

 the other on the farm owned by Jehial Tiffany. At the latter place 

 are traces of a fortification." 



The Annual Report of the U. S. Bureau of Ethnology, says on 

 page 506: 



1 From Young's History of Chaulanqna County, p. 620. 



