﻿26 CATALOGUE OP PREHISTORIC WORKS. 



Yarmouth County. 

 Mouud at Kempt, excavated, yielded 40 fine arrow and spear heads. 



Reported by Rev. Geo. Pattersou, Sm. Rep., 1881, p. 674. 

 NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 



Earthworks at the north end of Lake Winnipeg. Earthworks of 

 various forms on many of the streams falling into the Red and Assini- 

 boine Rivers. 



Noticed in New York Evening Post, March 12, 1886. 



Four square mounds, about 90 feet square and 5 to 7 feet high, flat 

 on the top, " near the Blackfoot Crossing." 



New York Sun, August 2, 1885. 



ONTARIO. 



Grenville County. 



Ancient mounds and inclosure in Augusta Township, 8^ miles north- 

 west of Prescott, and inclosure at Spencerville. Excavated; contained 

 human and animal bones, shells, pottery, and implements of stone and 

 bone. 



Examined, figured, and described by W. E. Guest, Sm. Rep., 1856, pp. 271-276. 



Leeds County. 



Painting in vermillion in Elizabeth Township, about one-fourth of a 

 mile from the village of Oak Point (in St. Lawrence County, New 

 York). 



Brief mention by Dr. Franklin Hough, 4th Ann. Rep. Regents N. Y. Univer- 

 sity, in N. Y. Senate Docs., vol. 2, No. 30 (1851), p. 109. 



Painting upon the rocks below Brockville and also opposite the vil- 

 lage of Morristown, New York. 



Brief mention by Dr. Franklin Hough, 4th Ann. Rep. Regents N. Y. Univer- 

 sity, in N. Y. Senate Docs., vol. 2, No. 30 (1881), pp. 107-108. 



Northumberland County. 



Mounds and graves occur 2 miles east of Brighton, on Presque Isle 

 Point, and similar remains 4 miles west of these on the lake shore, near 

 Redeck's farm. 



Reported by W. V. Irish, Sm. Rep., 1879, p. 448. 



Simcoe County. 



John Gait mentions remains of an Indian fort on the summit of a 

 precipitous ridge near Lake Simcoe, consisting of a ''mound" (embank- 

 ment) of earth inclosing a considerable extent of ground. 



Lang's Polynesian Nations, p. 109. Mentioned by Squier, Ab. Mon., N. Y., p. 85. 

 Bone pits of Indian origin, about 7 miles from Penetanguishene, in 

 Giny Township. Human bones, copper and brass kettles, beads, and 

 other articles found in them. 



Description and figures by Edward Bawtree, Edinburgh New Philosophical 

 Journal, No. 89 (1848), pp. 86-101. Quoted by Squier, Ab. Mon., .N. Y.. 

 pp. 69-73. 



