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on either side, but flat sinkers are found, suggesting a question of 

 use. Clark reported a ditch around it 4 feet deep with a bank on 

 each side of this, and a gateway. A man who cleared the land told 

 the writer that there were merely two broad depressions. It is on 

 level land and there is a small site one-half of a mile away. 



14 Two or three hamlets near the north end of Cold Spring bridge, 

 lot loo, on both sides of the road, with abundant relics and with 

 pottery on the east side. 



15 Three hamlets on the south shore of Cross lake, on lots 31, 

 32 and 33, Elbridge. Stone relics but no pottery. 



1 6 Three hamlets and scattered lodges on lot 34, mostly on the 

 Elliott farm. The central one was long occupied and yielded many 

 fine relics but scarcely any pottery. 



17 There was a camp on the river just west of Carpenter's brook 

 and several east on lot 35. One hamlet was at the mouth of the 

 brook and two farther east on the Bidwell farm. The cemetery for 

 the latter place was south of the road with both early and recent 

 relics. Clark says, "At Jack's reef when the whites first settled this 

 town the Onondagas had a large settlement with an extensive clear- 

 ing and a valuable orchard" (Clark, 2:328). No early travellers 

 mention this. 



1 8 Village and earthwork on the Somes farm, lot 16, Van Buren. 

 These are on a hill where relics are said to have been abundant and 

 where an old settler of good judgment remembered a palisade line. 

 Doctor Beauchamp found no traces of occupation on^trie hill but 

 there were small camps toward the river. 



19 A hamlet on lot 4 and west of Dead creek. It was an early site 

 but not long occupied. 



20-21 Two hamlets were east of Dead creek on the river bank. 

 These were on the Wright farm, lots 4 and 5, and were quite dif- 

 ferent in character, the eastern one having rude relics. The western 

 one probably represented several camps. 



22 An extensive stockade was on the Crego farm, lot 6, near the 

 south bank of the river. The area is about 400 by 500 feet and the 

 usual relics are found, among the rest the sharp barb of a bone fish- 

 hook and a flat Unio bead. Another stockade was directly across 

 the river. 



23 Two hamlets and several camps were on the river bank on the 

 west line of Baldwinsville, town lot 7. One camp was recent. 

 Others occur at intervals along the river as far as the island. These 

 are mostly early. 



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