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Indian race had frequented those shores, man had here takefi up his 

 habitation; evidence of which was seen in the usual mounds. 



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When the writer, in 1851, visited the site, attractive from its histor- 

 ical associations, nothing remained on the bleak, sandy point to denote 

 the original works of any of the races who had dwelt there save a few 

 mis-shapen mounds and the remnants of the pickets which once had 

 formed the sally-port, near which was the stump of the flag-staff, 

 projecting about two feet above ground. These last were fast being 

 undermined by the waters of the straits, which washed within a few 

 feet of them ; and, as in stormy weather the waves must have swept 

 clear over them, in all probability they have long since disappeared. The 



