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scrapers in the refuse. At this place and one other, perforated 

 Melantho shells were found. 



Forest Lawn group in Buffalo, east of Black Rock, embracing 

 eight small sites. 



Essex County 



List of Sites 



1 " The vestiges of Indian occupation in North Elba and the 

 territory around the interior lakes leave no doubt that at some former 

 time they congregated there in great numbers " (Watson, p. 216). 



2 A supposed recent village has been reported at North Elba 

 (Smith, Essex, p. 467). 



3 Arrowheads etc. were abundant at Elizabethtown (Smith, 

 Essex, p. 467). 



4 Camp sites indicated by large arrowheads, pestles, mortars, 

 chisels, gouges, knives, -axes and pottery, occur in the north part of 

 Ticonderoga, " along the creek, the flats of Trout brook, and espe- 

 cially near the rapids ai the head of the outlet." Recent articles were 

 also abundant (Smith, Essex, p. 381). 



5 Mound reported by Mr Marsh, on Schroon lake, as being on 

 the Platts farm in Schroon. This may be natural but arrowheads 

 are found. 



6 Village site on lot 3 in Schroon is on the eastern side of Schroon 

 lake. Pottery has been found. 



7 Village site on the C. C. Whitney and Myron C. Pelkin prop- 

 erty, lot 3, in Schroon. 



Franklin County 



List of Sites 



1 Burial mounds occur on islands in the St Lawrence, and camps 

 along its banks. 



2 A burial mound on St Regis island was opened in 1818. The 

 upper deposits of bones were well preserved. The lower ones were 

 charred (Squier, p. 15; Hough, p. 25). 



3 St Regis s on the boundary line on the St Lawrence; the 

 inhabitants are mostly of Mohawk, Onondaga and Cayuga lineage. 

 The band has been recently taken in by the Six Nations of New 

 York to supply the place of the Mohawk. 



4 Near St Regis on the east bank of St- Regis river another mound 

 was afterward opened (Hough, p. 25). 



