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17 Two considerable inclosures were in Rush near the village 
of West Rush and on the banks of Honeoye creek, which defended 
one of these on one side. The other was on higher ground 100 
rods southward. Each was of four acres and had caches and 
broken pottery—Squer, p. 60. Piles of stones of uniform size, 
a little larger than a hen’s egg, were found on Isaac Cox’s farm, 
one and one quarter miles northeast of West Rush. 
Skeletons were found a mile northwest of West Rush. Many iron 
tomahawks and war arrowheads have been found in a slight gully 
three fourths of a mile northwest of West Rush, and 12 skeletons 
were exhumed in digging a cellar about the same distance north 
of that village. Across the road others were found. These were 
on the land of Peter Martin and J. B. Hamilton. A little east of 
these were early traces of an earthwork. Similar traces have been 
reported north of Honeoye creek, over a quarter of a mile north 
of West Rush. At another village site half a mile west of West 
Rush, between the N. Y. C. railroad and the creek, Mr Clapp says 
“Two distinct races have been found; the platycnemic man and 
also another race. There are many relics in the graves of the 
latter. Also pottery, pipes, etc., on the surface.” 
18 “On the shore of Lake Ontario on a high bluff near Iron- 
dequoit bay in 1796 the bank caved off and untombed a great 
quantity of human bones of a large size.’—Turner, P. & G. p. 428. 
It was a natural sand mound west of the present west angle of 
the bay. “As late as 1830 human bones of an unusually large 
size were occasionally seen projecting from the face of the bluff 
or lying on the beach.”—Harris, p. 22. Others are placed under 
this number. “Two mounds occupy the high sandy grounds to 
the westward of Irondequoit bay where it connects with Lake 
Ontario. They are small, the largest not exceeding five feet in 
height.” They had been opened and only charcoal and pieces of 
bones remained. [Early relics were on this hight— Squwer, p. 
56-57, pl. 7, no. 2. Squier’s plan is given in fig. 57. They were 
on the hill south of the Sea Breeze hotel about 30 feet northeast 
of the observatory. Harris was told that W. H. Penfield opened 
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them in 1817 and found a “sword scabbard, bands of silver, belt 
