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1 “In the town of Alabama in the extreme northwest of the 
county, were once three of these works all of small size. 
This town adjoins the town of Shelby, Orleans co. on the south, 
and touches Newstead, Erie co. on the west. It will ultimately be 
seen that its ancient works constitute part of a chain extending 
from the lake ridge on the north, to Buffalo creek on the south- 
west, a distance of 50 miles. Not less than 20 ancient works are 
known to occur in this range.” —Squer, p. 64 
2 Tonawanda is a modern Seneca village on that reservation 
and along the Tonawanda creek. It seems to have been near here 
that Mr Kirkland came to another fort on his way toward Buffalo, 
but farther east. “On the south side of the Tanawande creek 
at a small distance, are to be seen the vestiges of another ancient 
fortified town.”—Yates, p. 18 
3 “ The old fort in Oakfield, has a ditch and bank inclosing Io 
acres.” —French, p. 327. It is half a mile west of Caryville, and was 
the best. preserved of these works which Squier saw. There are 
five gateways, and a graded way to the water. The general outline 
is oval and the lodge sites were plainly seen. Broken pottery was 
found, as in all such works. There had been traces of palisades 
by one of the gates. It was 800 feet long by 600 wide.—Squier, 
p05, plo; no: 2) Sis plan issin tie. 38: 
4 A mile northeast of this was a large work called the Bone fort, 
because a mound «was inside “6 feet in height by 30 at the base, 
which was entirely made up of human bones slightly covered with 
earth.” Squier thought this certainly one of the works described 
by Rev. Samuel Kirkland in 1788. Six miles west of Batavia “he 
rode to the open fields and arrived at a place called by the Senecas 
Tegatainedaghque, which imports a doubly fortified town or a town 
with a fort at each end. Here he walked about half a mile with 
one of the Seneca chiefs to view the vestiges of this doubly fortified 
town. They consisted of the remains of two forts, the first con- 
tained four acres of ground, the other, distant about two miles at 
the other extremity of the ancient town inclosed about eight acres. 
The ditch around the first was about five or six feet deep. A small 
stream of water and a high bank circumscribed nearly one third 
