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55 Camp on Long point. The pottery is mostly old and crude, 
but the writer found here some so indented within as to produce 
a boss without. 
56 Fishing camps on south shore and southwest of head of 
“Long carrying place.” Old and crude pottery. 
57 Hamlets near Three Mile point. 
58 Flint knives and arrowheads between Chaumont and Depau- 
ville, east of the creek. ; 
No county is more perplexing than this in locating sites from 
descriptions, partly from their number and partly from the number 
of authorities and their varying accounts. It will be seen that 
Messrs Squier and Hough did not always agree in their plans as 
has been the case elsewhere with others. That there are omissions 
is certain, that some errors will be found is probable,.as there was 
time for but slight personal examination. 
_ It is an interesting field and mainly prehistoric. While many 
things are like those of Onondaga, ossuaries show Huron ideas 
not prevalent among the New York Iroquois, who traditionally 
came out of the ground here. Mounds are more frequent, and the 
circular lodge sites of Perch lake are of a type unusual in New 
York. Their true relations are partly known but will not be con- 
sidered now. Local collections reveal peculiar articles while others 
are absent, and we gain some definite historic ideas from those 
called prehistoric. With slight exceptions the interior sites and all 
the forts are Iroquoian in character, while most of those near the 
St Lawrence and Lake Ontario are of earlier nations. 
Kings county. Few ofethe antiquities of this county have been 
reported except in a very general way, nor were they ever conspicu- 
ous. The Canarsies occupied this county and part of Jamaica. In 
Notes geographical and Instorical relating to the town of Brooklyn, p. 
27, (a reprint of the edition of 1824) it is said, “ Heads of Indian 
arrows, beds of oyster-and clam shells, denoting the former re- 
sidence of the aborigines, are frequently found in different parts 
of this town.” 
1 A few feet below the surface at the Narrows about 1837, ‘“ more 
than a wagon load of Indian stone arrowheads were found lying 
