PERCH LAKE AND OTHER NEW YORK MOUNDS 1 5 



in proportion to the width, and is an excellent example in its 

 symmetry. 



On the same farm is another 27 feet wide and 2 feet high, having 

 a deep depression. A small one is just west of this, and perhaps 

 related. 



Another is 30 feet wide and 2 feet high, having a depression. 

 There are some large stones outside of this. As the mound rose and 

 the ring grew, it may have taken in loose boulders around, which 

 had no relation to it. There is an obscure one north of this, and near 

 a shanty in the woods. One on the south side of the shanty was 2 

 feet high. 



A gravel bed, which has been opened in the woods, was cut 

 through one of these mounds, in such a way as to give a good 

 exposure. The bed reached above the mound on the east or upper 

 side, the mound terminating a ridge, and nothing is seen in the 

 exposure there. Another cut has been made in the mound below. 

 At the base is coarse gravel, in its natural condition. Over this is a 

 stratum of black earth, 3 feet deep and about 27 feet wide. The top 

 and the extremities of the mound remain. Nothing was found in 

 obtaining the gravel, nor was anything discovered in our farther 

 dig'ging. Not far from this, by the fence on the upper terrace, was 

 another large one. 



The finest mound on the Timmerman farm is near its southwest 

 corner, in an open field and near the head of Perch lake. It is 33 

 feet wide and about 5 feet high. Plate 8 is of this. It is at the foot 

 of a bold hillside, and itself on high ground. Digging had been done 

 there, and the Rev. Mr Scott is said to have obtained pottery and 

 other things in 1901. We dug but little, and found nothing. Other 

 low mounds were near toward the lake, and there is a large flat one 

 quite a distance north. South of this group is low land for some 

 distance, crossed by a rapid stream. 



Leaving this stream and the low land the woods on the Sayles 

 farm are reached, where there are many evergreens and a rocky shore 

 along the lake. In these dark woods are other mounds. One is near 

 the north end, and has its east side more elevated than the other, 

 apparently from the slope of the land. This has quite a deep 



