506 MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



basin exist at Long point, 2h miles up the eastern shore of the lake 

 ft-om Bemus point, hut this is not artilicial. Faint traces of an aborig- 

 inal embankment were noticed upon the high land back from this point 

 overlooking the lake. 



MoixDs AT Whitney's landing. 



Three miles fioin the Chautauqua Assembly grounds, at a place 

 called Whitneys lauding, are two mounds, situated upon the Whitney, 

 farm, aboiit GO rods apart. The land upon which they are situated 

 rises considerably above the level of the lake. No. 1 is 25 feet in 

 diameter and 4 feet high. At a depth of 18 inches were four very large 

 flat stones, placed side by side and forming a perfectly level layer. 

 The trench was carried down to the original surface of the ground, but 

 uothing else was found, except some fi-agments of humau bones and the 

 broken parts of an unbaked clay pipe. 



It was afterwards ascertained from Mr. A. W. Whitney that this 

 mound had been partially ex])lored forty years i^reviously, which 

 exploration resulted in the finding of one plain stone pipe, seventeen 

 spear-heads of the long or knife-like type, and human bones. An old 

 pine tree, 2 feet in diameter, then stood directly on top of the mound. 



The second mound measured 38 by M feet in diameter. It was opened 

 at the same time as No. 1 by the same party, with no other result than 

 that they came upon a layer of ashes at a shallow depth. A little dig- 

 ging was done in this mound and a biperforated stone gorget found. 



BONE PIT AT 8TEDMAN. 



A so-called "Indian pit" was dug into while making some road 

 improvements near this place. Twenty or twenty-five bodies were 

 uncovered which lay in rows. There were no relics of an aboriginal 

 character. 



Two mounds formerly stood upon the land of Mr. Albert Tiffany, a 

 mile and a half from Jamestown on the Ellington road, but have been 

 removed, and nothing reliable is known in regard to their contents. 

 While examining the site of these mounds a stone gorget similar to 

 that found at Whitney's landing was obtained. 



The remains of an ancient earthwork near Falconer's, which fol- 

 lowed the bank of the stream at this place, were examined. It was 

 semicircular in form, the length, following the ciirve, being about 5-tO 

 feet. It was utilized in the construction of a mill race (now abandoned) 

 and was built up 3 or 4 feet higher than it was originally, and some- 

 what lengthened. 



■•OLI> FORT," OR ••FORT HILL," NEAR ELLINCrTON. 



This was figured and described in 1860 by Mr. T. Apoleou Cheney.' 

 Although the wall has, to a large extent, disappeared, yet it can be 



I New Tork Senate Documeut No. 89, 1859, PI. vi, No. 2, p. 43. 



