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S. G. Baldwin’s bottom lands east of Clear creek —U. S. bur. of eth. 
P. 507 
36 An elliptic work in Ellington, on Clear creek, is 168 by 218 
feet. There is no trench and the wall is wide. A stone mound, 4 
feet wide and 5 feet high, is 70 rods away and toward the creek.— 
Cheney, p. 42, pl. 6, fig. 1. This plan appears in fig. 13 on a scale 
of 250 feet to oneinch. It is on Charles Gapleson’s land, south side 
of Clear creek and 2 miles east of Ellington—U. S. bur. of eth. 
p. 508 | 
37 Two bone mounds were in Ellicott. One was near Dexter- 
ville and the other on Tiffany’s farm. Near the latter were fortifica- 
tions.—Young 
38 There were two mounds on Albert Tiffany’s farm on the line 
of the Holland purchase, one and one half miles east of Jamestown 
on the Ellington road. A gorget was found in one—U. S. bur. of 
eth. p. 505 
39 There was a semicircular bank near Falconer’s, on the James- 
town and Ellington road. It was near a stream and was 540 feet 
long.—U. S. bur. of eth. p. 505 
40 An artificial mound containing large French knives and other 
relics, was opened near Jamestown a few years since. 
41 Skeletons were found under a large stump in Frewsburg. 
42 Large numbers of human bones have been found near Fen- 
tonville—Larkin, p. 60 
43 While digging a cellar on the lake front at Chautauqua, Sep. 
27, 1898, the workmen exhumed 12 skulls and other bones. 
44. Marcus Sackett reports a half circular fort near Hanover 
Center, through which the highway passes. Obliterated. A few 
arrowheads are still found. 
Chemung county. This county seems to have been occupied 
about the time of the discovery by a nation of the Iroquois family 
at war with the Five Nations. They are thought to have been the 
people whose aid Champlain expected in his attack on the Iroquois 
fort in 1615. Gen. J. S. Clark has no doubt that they were those 
mentioned in the description of Champlain’s map as “ Carantouanis 
a nation to the south of the Antouhonorons in a very beautiful and 
rich country where they are strongly lodged, and are friends with 
