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line, which is 250 feet above the village of Victor. The hill points 

 northward and is bounded on the eastern, western and northern 

 sides by precipitous slopes that drop to the valleys of two brooks, 

 both of which flow into the Mud creek. The westmost brook is 

 known as White brook and takes its beginning in a spring on the 

 side of a hill. This site is that of the Gandagora which was de- 

 stroyed by DeNonville in 1687. It was visited by Greenhalgh in 1677 

 who said it resembled Onondaga. Before its destruction the Jesuits 

 had established in this village, a mission which they called St Jacques, 

 so that there are fairly adequate contemporaneous accounts of the 

 village and ,its occupants. The site was excavated by Frederick 

 Houghton for the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. His excava- 

 tions are described in volume 10, number 2, of the bulletin of the 

 society. 



Fig. 84 Pottery vessel found in a grave on the site of 

 Gandougarae, East Bloomfield 



2 Fort and stronghold site known as Fort hill 1^/2 miles west of 

 Boughton hill in an air line. This corresponds with DeNonville's 

 account of the " picket fort at the top of a little mountain, scarped 

 on all sides." Some fifty years ago traces of the earthwork or 

 palisaded bases were to be seen, but this wall has now been destroyed 

 bv cultivation. 



