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pologist, July-September, 1920.) They probably resemble quite 

 closely those described at Northampton, Mass. 



"In the second locality, which is also pasture but farther toward 

 the Thames River, and bordering on wooded land, the hills are quite 

 irregularly scattered and few if any can be said to be in rows. It is 

 said that mounds also existed in a field close to the first locality 

 mentioned, but within a year or two the white man's plow has entirely 

 obliterated all traces of them. 



"It is of no little significance that there is an unbroken tradition 

 at Mohegan regarding these corn hills. Anyone asked will point 

 them out as such." 



De Forest' also refers to similar corn fields visible in his day, 1852, 

 near the village of Thompson, in the extreme northeastern corner of 

 Connecticut, in the old Nipmuck country. 



No. 8. Papoose Rock (pi. 37, a). — At a point near the shore of the 

 Thames just above the village of Massapeag, which was incidentally 

 an old Mohegan site whose name means "big water," is a ledge 

 about 100 feet in height. A jutting ledge halfway down toward the 

 river was pointed out by the older people as the scene of the follow- 

 ing legend : * 



"There was a Mohegan who went across to Long Island and took 

 a wife from one of the tribes there. After some time he tired of her 

 and came home. Soon after she had a child. She said to herself, 

 'My child's father has left me to take care of him. I can not do it 

 alone.' So she made ready for a journey and set out for the Mohe- 

 gan country across the Sound to look for her husband. She found 

 him at Mohegan and said to him, 'You must take care of me and 

 the child.' But he paid no attention to her. Then she went down 

 to where there was a steep sloping rock, not far from the river. 

 Standing on the top of this slope, she took her child in one hand and 

 grasped its head with the other. Then she twisted the head and it 

 came off, the blood flowing down the rocks. The woman cast the 

 hsad down, and the body she threw farther out. Where the head 

 fell there remained a splotch of blood, and where the body struck 

 there was left an imprint stained upon the rock in the shape of the 

 child. That is the story. The blood is there yet, and it tells of her 

 deed when she has gone." 



No. 9. ShantoJc or SJiantup Point (pis. 32, 38, h). — The name comes 

 from an ancient Moliegan family named Shantup which is said to have 

 resided there. At this point several historic associations are cen- 

 tered. An ancient Mohegan burying ground may still be seen. 

 The interments have left their inerasible marks in elongated hollows 

 irregularly distributed over several acres. Among them are the 



3 De Forest, History of the Indians of Connecticut, p. 377. 

 ' Quoted from Speck, rcf. i (1909), pp. 1S6-187. 



