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Few sites have been reported in this county, but from the many 
Indian names and favorable places there should be more. 
Cortland county. Cortland county was little more than a 
thoroughfare for the aborigines, nor was it much used in this way 
until after 1700, when the Iroquois had frequent business with Penn- 
sylvania. An account of some curious caches in Homer has an ex- 
travagant sound, but others have been found between Cortland and 
the Tioughnioga river. Flint arrowheads have been found im- 
bedded in trees on the west bank of this stream. Mr Goodwin 
opened a mound in 1855, which contained charcoal, “fragments of 
mouldering bones and singularly wrought impressions on the sur- 
face of dark, slatish colored stones.”—Goodwin, p. 141. The 
locality was not given. 
1 A small site on the west bank of the river north of Blodgett 
Mills, with arrowheads and other articles. 
2 Dr Hunt built a house in 1794 a mile south of Marathon on 
the east side of the river. It was on a knoll where there were many 
circular depressions near together. About 1850 these graves were 
opened, and earthen vessels and human bones were found.—Good- 
win, p. 226 
3 A camp in Lapeer south of Mr Genung’s house on a bluff 
near and overlooking Big brook—Goodwin, p. 259 
Delaware county. 1 There was an Indian fort at Sidney Plains, 
of three acres inclosed by mounds and surrounded by a ditch. It 
was on the Susquehanna in.the northwest corner of Sidney. “From 
early times the place has been called the fort grounds.’’—French, 
p. 264. This may be the fort of which David Cusick spoke as the 
second home of the giant, the first being at Oxford. 
2 There was an Indian village at the mouth of Cole’s brook, on 
the north side of the Delaware in Colchester. Some apple-trees re- 
mained.—French, p. 260 
3 “ Near the mouth of Mill brook and on the banks of the Dela- 
ware are certain remains which bear a strong resemblance to works 
of art. Many suppose them to have been ancient fortifications or 
works of defense. In the vicinity was once found what was sup- 
posed to have been a stone battle axe, and arrowheads existed in 
