66 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
At several places on Smoke’s and Cazenovia creeks were early 
sites and fine serrated scrapers occurred on some of them. They 
have heretofore been found only at Canajoharie. Among the early 
articles near Buffalo are bird amulets and gorgets, with many 
articles of bone and some pottery. No native copper has been 
collected and no stone tubes. With one prominent exception the 
Iroquoian sites are at a considerable distance from the lake and 
river. The flint used was mostly of a light color and many very 
small and slender triangular arrowheads are found. This is a 
marked feature of the vicinity. 
Essex county. There are no important sites in this county, but 
many traces of early and late passage. On early maps the New 
York wilderness is called the hunting grounds of the Five Nations, 
and it was their tradition that it had never been otherwise used. 
The locations given will be of a general nature, though Dr Kellogg 
has examined some small sites along the west shore of Lake Cham- 
plain. Split Rock was the northern boundary mark of the Mo- 
hawks. Crown Point has been considered the scene of Cham- 
plain’s battle with them. They collected flints for use nearly two 
miles north of Ticonderoga. 
1 “The vestiges of Indian occupation in North Elba and the 
territory around the interior lakes leave no doubt that at some 
former time they congregated there in great numbers.’”—Watson, 
p. 216. A supposed recent village has been reported at North 
Elba—Smith. Essex, p. 467 
2 Arrowheads, etc. were abundant at Elizabethtown.—Smuth. 
Essex, p. 467 
3 Large arrowheads, pestles, mortars, chisels, gouges, knives, 
axes and pottery, occur in the north part of Ticonderoga, “ along 
the creek, the flats of Trout brook, and especially near the rapids 
at the head of the outlet.” Recent articles were also abundant.— 
Smith. Essex, p. 381 
Franklin county. Burial mounds occur on islands in the St 
Lawrence, and camps along its banks, but settled towns were usually 
inland. 
