Here, I am at a loss to determine, whether Mr. C. 

 meant on the opposite shore of Lake Ontario, or the 

 opposite side of the ridge. But it is of little importance 

 which of the two was intended, since I will venture to 

 question, whether there is a single instance of these 

 fish-mounds to be found on the northern shore of Lake 

 Ontario, either above, or beneath the water. 



These water-worn stones or pebbles, I have before 

 remarked, were, probably, formed in the course of 

 ages, by the currents of rivers, and carried down 

 their streams and spread over the beds of those rivers 

 in immense quantities, as is the case at this day, in a 

 thousand instances. 



Such was probably the case with Ontario ; and as 

 soon as the general current had acquired sufficient 

 velocity and power, they were elevated from the bot- 

 tom and deposited with the alluvion on the shores, be- 

 cause the ridge, or bank of any river, which is the 

 same thing, being higher than the waters, they were 

 obstructed in their course, and consequently deposited 

 with the sand and gravel, the latter of which, in the 

 present instance, were subsequently collected together 

 into heaps by the fishes of some kind or other. 



Such is precisely the case on the western shore of 

 the Connecticut river, for the distance of about three or 

 four miles below tlje Falls, where there are hundreds 

 of these mounds, of a low pyramidal form, from the 

 size or quantity of half a bushel, to that of eight or ten 

 bushels, and what is no less extraordinary than fa- 

 vourable to my hypothesis, is, that not one single in- 



