ABORIGINAL OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK 11g 
Mr Clinton described this as half as large as the last and of the 
same form. Unio shells are also found here.—Squier, p. 32 
Mr Clark said the bank and ditch could easily be traced in 1793 
and that the area was one and one half acres. It seems less than 
this. He said there was a gateway on the west side about 12 feet 
wide. His figure makes this wall slightly convex and all the others 
straight.—Clark, 2:325. There is an abrupt descent on the west 
side into a deep ravine and on the south there is a quick slope to 
the Munro house. The east and north walls were on level land. 
43 Mr Clark also described a fort on lot 73 a little east of El- 
bridge village. “On the site of Mr Caleb Brown’s house and 
garden, including a portion of the highway, was an ancient circular 
fort, containing a little over an acre of ground, within which were 
evidences of a blacksmith shop,” and many common relics.—Clark, 
2:327. All Elbridge forts, however, were prehistoric. 
44 The same writer says, “On lot 84, on the farm now owned 
by Caleb Brown, esq., (1849) about 40 rods south of the road was 
a circular fort which covered over three acres of ground.” There 
was a wide gate on the west and a smaller one on the northeast 
side. A cache was mistaken for a well and near “the western 
gateway were found several pieces of timber, having the marks of 
iron tools upon them.” Pottery and shells were abundant. Mr 
Clark’s plan appears in fig. 65. 
45 He also described an open village on lot 83 south of Elbridge 
village where he said hundreds of grooved stone axes had been 
found, and numerous arrowheads as well as a stone for sharpening 
tools——Clark, 2:324. Grooved axes are so rare in New York that 
the writer made special inquiries and found that this was an error. 
None are known there. 
46 Two or three camps occur on lot 62, Salina near the north- 
east angle of Onondaga lake and scattered lodges toward the out- 
let. The spot shows no permanent occupation and relics vary 
greatly in character. 
47 Farther south there are camps and hamlets toward the north 
line of Liverpool and east of the lake and on both sides of the 
