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1129 feet. A thousand feet should be taken from this. The other 
is 163 feet away and has a north and south axis of 184 feet, the east 
and west being 151 feet. They are west of the valley.—U. S. bur. 
of eth. p. 510 
26 An elliptic work is on a plateau 150 feet above Cassadaga creek 
and on the north side of a small stream. The bank is 495 feet 
around, with a gateway Io feet wide. A trail leads to the stream 
and in the center of the work is a large and deep pit—Cheney, p. 44, 
pl. 8, fig. 1. Mr Cheney’s plan appears in fig. 9, on a scale of 250 
feet to the inch. 
27 Another work is on high land 160 rods from Cassadaga creek, 
with a small stream on the southern side. Many skeletons within 
had horizontal burial. Within and without were vast quantities of 
implements and large caches were near. From the gate in the 
northeast part a trail led to a cemetery 50 rods away. Here were 
three large rectangular graves with from 30 to 60 skeletons in a 
sitting posture.—Cheney, p. 45, pl. 8, fig. 2. Mr Cheney’s plan is 
given in fig. 4, on a scale of 500 feet to the inch. 
28 In “the village of Bucklin’s corners was an ancient cemetery 
where a great number of human skeletons have been exhumed.”— 
Larkin, p. 50. Bucklin’s corners, or Gerry center, is now in the 
village of Vermont. Three quarters of a mile south of this was an 
elliptic work of 7 acres, on high ground overlooking the Cassadaga 
valley. Much of this was visible in 1880 according to Dr Larkin. 
29 Iwo miles southeast of Sinclairville was a circular work.— 
Young, p. 19 
30 An oval work was 3 miles south of Sinclairville, on Shepard- 
son’s farm.—Reynolds — 
31 Two semicircular works on Clear creek were reported by Mr 
Thatcher. They were 3 miles west of Ellington and a mile above 
no. 34. They were on bluffs and each had an area of one and one 
half acres. One was double-walled, the walls turning out at the 
gateway, in front of which was a small mound.—U. S. bur. of eth. 
P. 509 
32 Two works on opposite sides of Clear creek are 56 rods apart. 
One on a high peninsula is a parallelogram with rounded 
