THOMAS. 1 NEW YOKK. 503 



The accouipauyiug sketch (Fig. 330) from a survey by Mr. Middle- 

 ton represents an iuclosui'e situated on the farm of Mr. Kansom Mead, 

 half a mile north of Pittsfleld. It consists of an embankment and 

 exterior ditch, is somewhat oval in form, 340 feet in diameter fi-om 

 northwest to southeast, and 280 feet from northeast to southwest. It 

 is on the lowest terrace, a few feet above the banks of the Little Bro- 

 kenstraw creek, there Ijeing two other terraces between it and the hill. 

 On the western side, where it has not been disturbed, the ditch is 2 

 feet deep and 7 feet wide, with the wall about the same dimensions; 

 the remainder is nearly leveled by the plow. On the southwest side is 

 an entrauceway about 25 feet wide, but owing to the high grass and 

 the leveling spoken of exact measurement was impossible. The work 

 seems to have been a stockaded inclosure similar to those of western 

 New York. 



Xo other remains exist in the vicinity, though relics of various sorts 

 have been found within and around the wall. 



NEW YORK. 

 MADISON COUNTY. 

 CAZENOVIA TOWNSIIlr. 



Immediately east of lot 44 of Pompey township, Onondaga county, is 

 the site of a fort mentioned by Clark,' as on the farm of Atwell. He 

 gives a plan of it, representing graves within and without the inclosure, 

 the area of which he estimates at 5 acres. The gateway is placed at the 

 east. This fort, which has never been described, is so interesting in 

 some respects that Eev. W. M. Beauchamp, who furnishes this descrip- 

 tion, accurately sixrveyed and platted it in 188C, finding the included 

 area to be only 2f acres. It is remarkably narrow for nearly half its 

 lengtli and occupies a ridge between two ravines east of Limestone 

 creek about a mile west of Oazenovia. No graves have been found so 

 far as known, but some coarse relics have been exhumed. The ground 

 has been cleared, but little of it has been plowed as yet, and the post 

 holes, in a narrow, shallow trench, can be traced almost all the way 

 arcmnd. They average about 2i feet from center to center. The east 

 line crosses the ridge, extending nearly to the ravine on the north side, 

 but not to that on the south, and is 225 feet long. The north line runs 

 westwardly 320 feet to a point where the width of the fort is contracted 

 to about 80 feet (see Fig. 331, which represents a plan of the fort); 

 thence it pursues a slightly winding course westward 224 feet farther 

 to the west end. This end curves southward about 100 feet. The 

 southern side runs eastwardly, slightly curving, to the narrow point, 

 thence a little south of east, almost in a direct line to the place of begin- 



I Hist, of Ononduga. Vol. 2, pp. 268. 269. 



