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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



ridge 



becomes very uai'row, but 



iiiug. From this smaller eud the 

 exteuds some distance farther west, coming to a point. This fort 

 belongs to the class generally designated prehistoric, but judging by 

 the relics found is so closely related to other sites near by as to lead to 

 the conclusion that it may have been occupied early in the seventeenth 

 century. The pottery found has tlie human faces on the angles, which 

 characterize that of the other Delphi forts, and the bone and horn 



implements are much the same. 

 Some clay pipes ornamented with 

 human faces have been obtained, 

 and here was found the barbed fish- 

 hook of horn which formed the only 

 American example of the kind 

 known when Dr. Eau published his 

 work on "Prehistoric Fishing." 

 Since then, the barb of another has 

 been found on the Seneca river, 

 and Mr. Twining, of Copenhagen, 

 has another complete hook of the 

 kind found at Watertown, N. Y. 

 As no sea shells have been found 

 on the more ancient sites of Onon- 

 daga county, the presence of a scal- 

 lop shell, a long bead made from 

 Fuh/Kr caricd, and a small polished 

 white bead made from a univalve, 

 lead to the conclusion that the fort 

 is com])aratively recent, although 

 no recent relics have been obtained 

 here. 



KENNER TOWNSHIP. 



At a point on Mchols pond, (> 

 miles south of Canastota, and .3 

 miles east of Perry ville, is a village 

 site of peculiar interest, as it is 

 claimed that here stood the Onon 

 daga town attacked by Champlaiu 

 in 1615. A small pond bounds it 

 on the north, which was dry when 

 examined and ma])ped in 1882. The topography, as shown in the an- 

 nexed diagram (Fig. 332), agrees very well M'ith the historical descrip- 

 tion and the figure as given by Cliamplain and in The Documentary 

 History of New York.' The figure is also copied into various other 

 modern works. Gen. J. S. Clark, of Auburn, first drew attention to 



Fio, 331. — Ancient fort on Atwell farm. Madison 

 county, New York. 



1 Vol. 3, p. 14. 



