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road. Camps lie westward of this along the bluff. The relics are 

 all early. One burial mound in the woods at Long Branch was 12 

 feet long and 3 feet high when examined by the writer, but was once 

 larger. Six skeletons and some early relics were afterward taken 

 out. This mound was oblong but the other was circular and much 

 farther southeast at the base of the sandy bluff. In it were skeletons 

 and stone relics. 



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Fig. 83 Effigies from pipe bowls from Onondaga county site. 

 Bigelow collection, State Museum. 



Otis M. 



71 Several camps were about Pleasant beach near the west shore 

 of Onondaga lake, yielding fine relics and extending from the outlet 

 nearly to Nine Mile creek. No Iroquoian traces are found on the 

 west side of Onondaga lake and but a few on the east. 



72 The Sheldon fcrt is on lot 69, Pompey. It occupies the most 

 commanding situation of any in the county, and is on a high and 

 ^teep bluff south of the Hollow road and of a stream flowing into 

 ^.as' Limestone creek. The bluff is nearly or quite 300 feet high, 

 precipitous on the north side with an abrupt slope on the east and 

 south. There is a depression on the west. The summit is a plateau 

 ~f about 450 feet from north to south with a width of 350 feet ?' 

 the north end and of 230 feet at the south. It was occupied for some 

 years and recent articles are found. There is higher land beyond 

 the western depression. The probable date is about 1630. 



73 A stockade was a mile south of Delphi between two ravines 

 on H. Chase's land, lot 99, with a cemetery on the south just over 



