THE HUKON-IROQUOIS DISTRICT. 



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reported farther iiurtli, along the river Trent. They occur in pair.s ot 

 equal size, and are lined with stones. The St. Lawrence river also 

 has mounds, mostly on islands. From the Thousand ishinds eastward, 

 defensive walls, earth iuclosures, and uudefended villages occasionally 

 occur on both sides, but usually at some distance from the river. The 



general features of the site commoulj' called Hochelaga, at Montreal, 

 indicate a stockade, but no certain traces of this remain. 



In New York the Mohawk valley is almost limited to the stockade in 

 its defeu.sive works. The solitary exception, mentioned by Squier in 

 his Antiquities of New York and the West,' as being a little west of 

 Fort Plain, is closely connected, by its other remains, with the palisaded 



'l:aitinii 18.^1, pji. 82,83. 



