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F. B. Hough did good work in his histories and reports, being 
our fullest authority on the antiquities of northern New York. 
A. T. Cheney prepared a paper for the regents reports, on the 
earthworks of Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties. All wish that 
these reports had been extended. L. H. Morgan’s League of the 
Ho-de-no-sau-nee or Iroquois has a map of their home territory with. 
recent trails. Of the early homes and history of that great people 
he said little, but as a record of later Seneca life in every phase his 
work is priceless. It takes little note of any Indian towns before 
the revolution. 
Dr Frederick Larkin’s Ancient man m America adds much from 
his own field work to Mr Cheney’s account of Cattaraugus county. 
Rev. Robert Bolton’s History of the county of Westchester has a. 
long list of sites, mostly of recent date. L. L. Doty’s History 
of Livingston county gives an extended account of places occupied 
in that part of the Seneca territory. George H. Harris has ably 
and fully dealt with the still earlier occupation of the lower Genesee 
valley, where he was a conscientious worker, and in Andrew 
W. Young’s History of Chautauqua some additional matter will 
be found. Onondaga’s centenmal contains a full account of that in- 
teresting field by Rev. W. M. Beauchamp, in which the important 
camp sites, so little understood before, have a place. S. L. Frey 
has ably described notable sites in the Mohawk valley, the most 
recently occupied of any part of New York. Valuable facts have 
come from other authorities yet to be quoted. In the initial work 
of showing the connection between abandoned sites and historic 
events and times, great credit is due to Gen. John S. Clark of 
Auburn. By actual field work and vigorous reasoning, he solved 
many mysteries, and traced back the Iroquois in their migrations 
for nearly 300 years. The benefit was not merely in his own per- 
sonal investigations. He directed others aright and their work 
became more definite and yielded better results. 
A few years ago Cyrus Thomas was employed in preparing 
an account of the earthworks east of the Rocky mountains, and 
engaged Rev. W. M. Beauchamp to report on the Huron-Iroquois 
territory in general, but more particularly on that comprised within 
