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standing the stump of a withered pine-tree, which is sixteen feet in circumference 

 six feet above the roots. A few rods to the southward of the work is a narrow 

 ravine leading off towards Little Buffalo Creek. Within this is a spring from 

 which flows a small stream. It will be observed that two of the gateways of the 

 work placed not far apart open in this direction — leading to the inference that it 

 was here that the water used by the ancient occupants was obtained. A number 

 of large caches also occur within this work. 



PLATE X. No. 1. 



ANCIENT WORK ON LATE INDIAN RESERVATION, ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



Upon the opposite bank of the creek already named, and probably on lot No. 3 

 of the Reservation, is the singular work here presented. The land upon this side 

 of the creek rises abruptly to the height of 150 or 200 feet, forming a high bluflf. 

 The edge of this bluff is cut by ravines into spurs or head-lands ; and upon one of 

 these the work under notice is situated. It is not large, and is singular only in 

 having wide interruptions in the embankment — so wide indeed, that were it not 

 from the perfect condition of the lines where they exist, it might be conjectured 

 that the structure was never completed. Caches were noticed here. The ground 

 is covered with a dense forest, which obscures all parts of the work. 



To the southwestward of this, on lot 29 of the same range and on the south 

 side of " Big Buffalo Creek," is still another similar work, which is described by 

 Mr. Junius Clark, in a private communication, as about eight hundred feet in cir- 

 cumference, having three gateways and an open space ten rods wide at the south- 

 western corner. A gateway on the north opens towards a spring of water, distant 

 about a dozen rods. Other works, probably differing in no essential respect from 

 these, are said to occur at various places upon the southern border of the Reser- 

 vation. 



PLATE X. No. 2. 



ANCIENT WORK, CLARENCE TOWNSHIP, ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



Passing northward from the localities last mentioned to the distance of five or 

 six miles, keeping upon the limestone [dateau, we find another series of remains, 



