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Fragments of pottery and a variety of rude implements, as also copper kettles 

 and other articles of European origin, have been found upon excavation within the 

 enclosure and in its immediate vicinity. At c and d, skeletons have been disclosed 

 by the plough. They were well preserved, and had been buried according to the 

 Indian custom in a sitting posture. 



The valley of the Mohawk in this vicinity, it is well known, was the favorite 

 seat of the tribe whose name it bears, and has been made classical ground by the 

 stirring incidents of our early history. It was here the Indians maintained themselves 

 until the period of the Revolution, and it seems probable that it was they who erected 

 the work in question at an earlier or later date in their history.* It corresponds 

 in position and character with the works of the other parts of the State, and is 

 precisely such a structure as we might expect to find erected by a very rude 

 people. It could not be ascertained that there are any traditions connected with 

 it ; in fact, its existence is scarcely known beyond its immediate vicinity. The 

 first intimation concerning it was derived from O. Morris, Esq., of the New York 

 Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, to whom the author would convey his acknow- 

 ledgments. 



* In the London Documents pi-eserved in the Office of the Secretary of State is a paper containing the 

 observations of Wentworth Greenhalgh, who in \&11 made a journey from Albany among the Indians to 

 the westward. The following notices of the towns of the Maquaes, or Mohawks, are interesting in this 

 connection : 



" The Maquaes have four towns, viz. : Cahainaga, Canagora, Canajorha, Tionondogue, besides one small 

 village about 110 miles from Albany. 



" Cahainaga is double stockaded round ; has four ports, about four foot wide apiece ; conteyns about 

 twenty-four houses ; and is situate upon the edge of a hill, about a bow-shot from the river side. 



" Canagora is only singly stockaded, has four ports like the other, contains about sixteen houses, and 

 is situated upon a flat about a stone's throw from the water's edge. 



'' Canajorha is also singly stockaded, with like number of houses, and a similar situation, only about two 

 miles distant from the water. 



" Tionondogue is doubly stockaded round, has four ports, four foot wide apiece, contains about thirty 

 houses, and is situated on a hill about a bow-shot from the river." — Documentary History of New York, 

 Vol. I., p. 11. 



