ABORIGINAL OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK 19 
New York. A map accompanied the manuscript report and out 
of this grew a more extended description, taking in the whole state, 
with both Iroquois and Algonquin villages, and earlier towns, 
camps and burial places. This has been gradually enlarged from 
time to time, though still capable of expansion. Several counties 
have been minutely explored and much material was thus prepared 
for publication, but other counties have had so little attention that 
no complete account can yet be given. A few months’ field work 
might yield some important results, but much information has been 
rapidly gathered from intelligent and experienced correspondents. 
There has been however a demand in the present work for at least 
a preliminary map of the early aboriginal occupation of New York, 
which may prove the simplest and quickest preparation for some- 
thing more complete. The following notes are arranged by coun- 
ties, with proper numbers for each. Quotations are made from: 
many works, usually with references, as a full transcript would 
often occupy too much space. Many uncredited accounts are the 
result of the writer’s own field work or research, continued through 
many years. Other notes may be adopted according to the faith 
reposed in their authors. 
Reference has been made to Mr Squier’s change of opinion re- 
garding New York earthworks. His words in regard to these may 
well be quoted here, as they appear in his Antiquities of New York 
and the west, published in 1851. On page 9 he says, in speaking 
of earlier writers whom he had mentioned, “ By none were pre- 
sented plans from actual surveys, of any of the ancient works of 
the state; a deficiency which, it is evident, could not be supplied 
by descriptions, however full and accurate, and without which it 
has been found impossible to institute the comparisons requisite 
to correct conclusions as to the date, origin and probable connec- 
tions of these remains. It has all along been represented that some 
of the inclosures were of regular outlines, true circles and ellipses, 
and accurate squares, features which would imply a common origin 
with the vast system of ancient earthworks of the Mississippi valley. 
Submitted to the test of actual survey, I have found that the works 
which were esteemed entirely regular are the very reverse, and 
