32 ABORIGINAL MONUMENTS OF NEW YORK. 



two rows of pickets, which touched each other, were of the thickness of an ordi- 

 nary mast ; and at six feet distance outside stood another pahsade of much smaller 

 dimensions, but from forty to fifty feet high." This account also states that the 

 invaders were successful in discovering almost all of the caches in which the 

 Indians had deposited their corn.* 



MADISON COUNTY. 



On the site of the village of Cazenova, situated in the township of the same 

 name, which adjoins Pompey, Onondaga county, on the east, it is said an ancient 

 earth-work once existed. No vestige of it now remains. By some it was repre- 

 sented to be circular, by others rectangular. Many rude relics have been found 

 here. 



In the town of Lenox there were still visible, in 1812, the traces of a work of 

 more modern date. It occupied a position corresponding with most of the defen- 

 sive structures of the aborigines, at the junction of two deep ravines, the precipi- 

 tous banks of which not only afforded protection, but precluded the necessity, in 

 great part, of artificial defences. Within the point thus cut oft' and defended there 

 is a small eminence, in which there are a number of excavations, containing traces 

 of decayed wood. 



It may be suggested (though, not knowing their dimensions, the suggestion may 

 be absurd) that the pits were originally designed for caches. Mr. Schoolcraft sup- 

 poses that this work was erected by the French, — a supposition which finds sup- 

 port in the regular form of the paUsaded outlines, and the circumstance that the 

 ground within and around the work has not yet returned to a forest state. 



* Documentary History of New York, Vol. I., p. .332. 



