LIVINGSTON COUNTY — EARTH-WORKS, ETC. 43 



down to the water. Some of the trees on the work appeared to be two or three 

 hundred years old." 



The usual variety of relics, fragments of pottery, stone chippings, etc., have been 

 found upon the site of this work. About half a mile south of this, and upon a 

 greater eminence, Mr. Kirkland traced another work, " of less dimensions than 

 the first, but with a deeper ditch, and in a situation more lofty and defensible." 

 Although it is well remembered by the older settlers in the neighborhood, nothing 

 now remains to indicate that it ever existed, except the greater abundance of stones 

 on the line of the former embankment. The position is such as the builders of 

 these works usually selected for their defences. Upon one side is a high and pre- 

 cipitous bank, at the base of which flows Allen's Creek ; and in every other direc- 

 tion the ground slopes gently. It is altogether a well chosen and very beautiful 

 site. About three miles south of these works, on the bank of the Genesee River, 

 and probably falling in Caledonia township, Livingston county, are to be observed 

 the traces of a mound. It was originally about eight feet high, and was filled with 

 human bones heaped promiscuously together. Still another mound is said to 

 occur a few miles N. W. of Scottsville, in the town of Chili. 



Near the village of West Rush, in the town of Rush, upon the banks of Hone- 

 oye Creek, were formerly two considerable enclosures. One of these was situated 

 immediately upon the bank of the creek, which defended it upon one side ; while 

 the other occupied higher ground a hundred rods to the southward. Each 

 contained about four acres, and the embankments were originally four feet in 

 height. A few slight depressions indicating the ancient caches, with fragments of 

 pottery scattered around, alone remain to mark the sites of these structures. 



The whole of this country was occupied by the Senecas ; and their cemeteries, 

 and the traces of their ancient forts and towns, are particularly numerous along 

 the Genesee River, and on the banks of the Honeoye. We shall refer to these 

 in another place. 



LIVINGSTON COUNTY. 



This county, which adjoins Monroe on the south, was also a favorite ground 

 with the Senecas. It is unsurpassed in beauty and fertility by any territory of 

 equal extent in the State, and abounds with mementoes of its aboriginal possessors, 

 who yielded it reluctantly into the hands of the invading whites. Here, too, once 

 existed a considerable number of ancient earth-works, but the levelling plough has 

 passed over most of them ; and though their sites are still remembered by the early 



