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5 Chenoweth’s Cold spring site near Harlem river with horn 
articles and pottery. Cave shelters near on south side. 
6 Wooded knoll with graves northeast of Inwood near Seaman 
avenue. 
Another of these occurs near Dyckman street, and various shell 
heaps are found on the west side of Harlem river near the former 
site of the Fordham foot bridge. 
There are shell heaps near Columbia university, below In- 
wood station, and at the mouth of Spuyten Duyvil creek. 
lnethe saotes | to, Dentons) News Vork,- p-. 26; it is said) that 
the village of Warpoes was on Chatham square and that of 
Lapinikan at Greenwich. Excavations on Pearl street also.reached 
old shell banks. In the Goede vrouw of Mana-ha-ta, p. 39 Mrs 
John K. Van Rensselaer speaks of a castle on a hill called Catie- 
muts overlooking a small lake near Canal street. The neighbor- 
hood was called Shell Point. 
Niagara county. This county was once occupied by the Atti- 
wandaronks or Neutral nation of Canada. Father de la Roche 
d’Allion visited them in 1626 and seems also to have been in New 
York. He was at Onontisaston and was visited by those of Oua- 
roronon living a day’s journey from the Seneca border.—Le Clerq, p. 
268. There was a town near the Niagara called Onguiaahra. When 
the Jesuits visited them in 1640 the New York towns are referred 
to again. “On this side of the river (in Canada) and not on the 
other, as some map marks it, are the greater number of the towns 
of the Neutral nation. There are three or four beyond, arranged 
from east to west toward the nation of the Cat or the Erieehro- 
nons.”—Jeswit relations, 1641, p. 71. This accounts for European 
relics toward Niagara river. Afterward it became Seneca territory. 
1 There was a small Seneca village near the mouth of Niagara 
river in 1718.—Doc. Hist. N. Y. 9:885. This was Oniagara but 
they frequented the river much earlier. Early relics occur. 
2 The rocky fort of Kienuka is on the Tuscarora reservation 
three and one half miles from Lewiston, on a spur of the mountain 
ridge. “A burial ground and two elliptical mounds or barrows 
that have a diameter of 20 feet and an elevation of from four to 
