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NEW YORK. 



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this site. The relics found here are of horn, stone, earthenware, and 

 shells from Oneida river and other streams. 



CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. 



Very many vestiges of aboriginal occupation were found abont the 

 shores of Chautauqua lake. The first works visited were some mounds 

 on the farm of Mr. Alouzo Felton, at Bemus point, on the north shore 

 of the lake, situated about 100 rods from it. Mound No. 1, 6 feet high 

 and 39 feet in diameter, was explored with the following results: 



Fragments of decayed human bones, some copper beads, a fragment 

 of a copper ornament and scraps of mica, were found at a depth of 3^ 

 feet. An ordinary brick similar in composition to those in the neigh- 



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J^tre plitces 



Fig. 332. — Seat of ancient Onoudaga town, Madison county, New York. 



borhood, but only 3 by 7^ inches, was discovered at a depth of 4i feet, 

 and below a channel made by a woodchuck. Five woodchuck holes 

 were noticed near the apex of the mound. An arrowhead was found U 

 feet below the surface; animal bones, with a piece of decayed wood, at 

 from 2 to 3 feet. The mound was explored to the natural svirface with- 

 out any further results. 



Mound No. 2, about 4 rods directly east of No. 1, measured 05 feet 

 in diameter and 5 feet high. Mr. Felton states that seven or eight years 

 ago this mound was explored, but nothing of interest found in it. 



According to Mr. James Sherrard,^ of Dunkirk, an ancient canal and 



' Smith.-^oniun Kept. 1881. p. C4.5. (The writer's nan.i* is ^iven erroueonsly as Sbeward.) 



