310 Aboriginal Monuments and Relics of New York. 
I found an entire uniformity in the indications of occupancy, 
and in the character of the remains of art discovered within these 
enclosures, throughout the whole range of their occurrence. 
The first feature which attracts notice, npon entering them, Is a 
- number of pits or excavations in the earth, usually at the points 
which are most elevated and dry. These pits are occasionally 
of considerable size, and are popularly called “ wells,” although 
nothing is more obvious than that they never could have been 
designed for any such purpose. ‘They are usually from three to 
four, but sometimes from six to eight feet in depth, and of pro- 
evident upon excavation. They were the caches in which. the 
former occupants of these works deposited their stores. Parched 
corn, now completely carbonized by long exposure, 1s to be dis- 
covered in considerable abundance in many of them. Instances 
fell under my notice where it had been found untouched to the 
amount of bushels, in these primitive depositories. ‘Traces of 
ashes mingled with the bones of animals, with numerous frag- 
ments of pottery, broken pipes, and occasionally rude ornaments, 
such as beads of stone, bone, and shell. ‘The pottery, may 
observe incidentally, is of very good material, and appears to 
skill. It is found in great abundance ; and, in many of the en- 
closures now under cultivation, bushels of fragments might, if 
exhibits any appearance of glazing. ‘The pipes are mostly com- 
which have fallen under my notice. They are, with few excep- 
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