Aboriginal Monuments and Relics of New York, 307 
: work contained a chapter upon the antiquities of the state, em- ‘ 
bodying the essential parts of Mr. Clinton’s memoir, together 
ce with some facts of considerable interest, which had fallen under 
the observation of the author himself. Within a few years, 
public attention has again been directed to the subject by Mr. 
Schooleraft, in his “Notes on the Iroquois.” Some detached. 
facts have also been presented in local histories and publications, 
but usually in so loose and vague a manner as to be of little value 
for purposes of comparison and research. 
The observations of all these authorities were merely inci- 
state ; a deficiency which, it is evident, could not be supplied by 
descriptions, however full and accurate, and without which it has 
been found impossible to institute the comparisons requisite to 
igi able connec- 
ellipses and accurate squares—features whic 
are-the very reverse, and that the builders, 
lated their forms entirely 
h they were built. And 
ks of this state, 
ee ee ae 
of which traces remain displaying any co 
» regularity, can lay claim to high antiquity. All of them may be a 
_ Teferred with certainty to the period succeeding the commence- . 4 
ment of European intercourse. - 
’ Mr. Clinton was unable to learn of the occurrence’ of any pes 
remains upon the first terrace back from the lakes, and, upon the = * me 
basis of the assumed fact of their non-existence, advanced the ee 
d the formation of this ee. 
works were erected—a chro- “ie 
re have, however, 
discriminately upon the first ‘and 
1 the “superior terraces, as also upon the islands of the lakes 
2a q 4 # 
rivers, * 
led by statements which no opportunity was 
ve elsewh i m 
u 
— ‘th those of Ohio and: the West 
_ Senerally, Under this hypothesis, the question whether they 
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