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made use of for the joint purposes of religion and judicature." Caesar, writing of 

 the Druids, is understood to allude to their sacred structures in the following pas- 

 sage : " Once a year the Druids assemble at a consecrated place. Such as have 

 suits depending, flock thither from all parts, and submit implicitly to their decrees." 

 —{De Bello Gallico, Lib. VI.) The Bardic successors, who preserved and trans- 

 mitted in writing many of the ideas and usages of their predecessors, speak of 

 their sacred mounts and circles in distinct terms. Meagant, who wrote in the 

 seventh century, says that they had their sacred mount where the judges assembled 

 to decide the causes of the people. — {Davies^ Myth, of the Druids, p. 6.) In a poem 

 by Cynddela, we find, " Bards were constituted the judges of excellence, and 

 bards will praise thee, even Druids of the circle, of four dialects, coming from the 

 four regions ; a hard of the steep mount will celebrate thee." In another passage 

 he exclaims, " It is my right to be master of song, being in a direct line of the true 

 tribe, a bard of the enclosure.'''' 



These illustrations might be extended through nearly all the early nations of the 

 world, upon both continents. They strikingly confirm the identity in the early 

 practices and primitive notions of mankind. 



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ONONDAGA COUNTY. 



Since the foregoing pages were printed, a work on the early history of what 

 is popularly called the " Onondaga Country," has been published by Mr. J. V. H. 

 Clark, of Manlius, Onondaga county. Mr. Clark's attention having been specially 

 directed to the subject, he has collected, with great industry, a large amount of 

 information respecting the antiquities of that interesting region, which are embo- 

 died in his work ; and from this are condensed the subjoined facts, additional to 

 those heretofore presented. 



In reference to some aboriginal remains in the town of Elbridge, which are 

 probably those to which Mr. Clinton alluded, as occuring in the same township, 

 Mr. Clark observes : 



" Upon lot 81, N. E. part, on land now occupied by Mr. John Munro (previously 

 the Judge Munro farm), was formerly a fort, situated on high ground. In 1793, the 

 ditch and embankment were easily to be traced. Large trees stood upon the wall 

 and in the ditch. The work was square, except that the line of embankment 

 toward the west curved slightly outward. The area was about an acre and a 

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