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come from this site. Attempts to locate any remaining graves have 

 been unsuccessful. Another dune with relics is between Chelsea and 

 Travisville. 



8 Scattered lodges and si..me shells are found along the north 

 side of Long Neck. 



9 Scattered lodges are to be seen on the south side of Long Neck, 

 opposite Price's island ; also a shell heap, with pits, which contain 

 no relics. Relics are found all over the end of the neck, but nowhere 

 abundant. Excavations on the south side of the neck proved unsuc- 

 cessful, the shell heap there being apparently only a shell-fish drying 

 heap. Price's Meadow island, a sand dune rising from the salt 

 meadows, has many indications of being an Indian site. There are 

 no shells there, however. 



10 A site is said to be located at New Springville on Corson's 

 brook. Shells and graves are reported ; also an iron arrowhead. The 

 writer has not been successful in personally locating this site, up to 

 date. The locality differs from almost all the others on the island, 

 in that the soil is not sandy, and we have seen no indications of 

 aboriginal occupation of any kind. Many people have said that they 

 found Indian implements there, however, and at one time a skull, 

 said to be Indian, was found in the bed of Corson's brook after a 

 freshet had eaten away the banks. 



11 A camp site is reported between Journeay avenue and Anna- 

 dale road, near Richmond Plank road, which contains early relics. 



12 There is a small village site on Lake's Meadow island, with 

 a small shell heap, where are found early relics of Indian origin. In 

 a letter to his sister, Miss Helen Thoreau, dated from Staten island, 

 July 21, 1843, Thoreau says, " Last Sunday I walked over to Lake 

 Island farm. . . . As I was coming away, I took my toll out of 

 the soil in the shape of arrowheads, which may after all be the 

 surest crop, certainly not effected by drought." 



13 Following up Sandy brook and from there to Kreischerville, 

 is a series of " Indian fields." Inland at Woodrow there are relics 

 about the Sandy brook. Relics occur at Sandy Ground, on the farm 

 of Isaac Wort, sr, and also near one of the clay pits in the woods, 

 isolated from all others. 



14 The sites from the Sandy brook to the Wort farm are remark- 

 able for the number of stone mortars found there. According to 

 Messrs Samuel and Isaac Wort, some very peculiar burials were 

 discovered during the leveling of a knoll on the property of Samuel 

 Wort many years ago. When earth was being removed, a stone- 



