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been a burial-place in this vicinity, and pipes and fragments of pottery are of com- 

 mon occm*rence. It is to be hoped that the remaining portion of this work will be 

 preserved from the encroachments of the plough. 



PLATE III. No. 1. 



ANCIENT WORK HALF A MILE WEST OF BURRVILLE, NEAR WATERTOWN, JEFFER- 

 SON COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



A WORK, differing somewhat from those before described, is situated two miles 

 north of the enclosure last noticed, upon a high promontory or headland, half a 

 mile west of the little village of Burrville. The northern base of this promontory 

 is washed by a small and rapid stream, a branch of the east fork of Sandy Creek. 

 Deep ravines lend strength to the position on the remaining sides, except towards 

 the west, where it joins the highlands. Here, extending across the neck of the 

 promontory, (the only direction from which access is easy,) was formerly an arti- 

 ficial defence, consisting of an embankment of earth and a trench. The plough 

 has filled the one and levelled the other, but the fines can still be accurately traced 

 by attending to the various circumstances already repeatedly mentioned. At 

 the part marked a, was formerly a large deep pit, resembhng the cefiar of a dwell- 

 ing-house. At b, was also an accumulation of large stones, bearing traces of fire ; 

 and which the early settlers, indulging in vague notions of the mineral wealth of 

 the country, called " the Furnace." 



Most of these stones were used to fill the pit near by ; but enough still remain to 

 mark the site of the supposed " furnace." Whenever the land of this work is 

 ploughed over, many relics of art are disclosed, fragments of pottery, broken pipes, 

 implements of stone and bone, beads of similar materials, etc., etc. 



About a mile northeast of this place, upon a fine level tract of ground, are the 

 traces of an aboriginal village. Rude fireplaces, constructed of rough stones hud- 

 dled together, and surrounded by carbonaceous accumulations, sometimes two feet 

 deep, mark the site of the ancient lodges. These indications are numerous. Here, 

 too, are to be found relics, entirely corresponding with those already noticed, as 

 occurring within and around the ancient enclosures. 



