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bank of Oak Orchard creek two miles from the lake. No other 
works were known. 
2 There was a circular work one and one half miles west of 
Shelby Center, of which Turner gives an account without mention- 
ing the double wall or more than one gateway. Squier quotes 
his account which has many features of interest. F. H. Cushing 
described it in the Smithsonian report for 1874, with its double 
walls, gateways and boulders. Some have ascribed to it a great 
antiquity. It is simply a prehistoric Iroquois fort with the usual 
relics, but it includes some Ohio shells. Dr Snyder furnished a 
plan, given in fig. 67, divided into quadrants by fences, two sections 
being under cultivation. In one of these the inner wall curved to 
avoid two large limestone boulders. The passages through the - 
outer and inner walls are not quite opposite. 
3 Half.a mile west of this was once a large cemetery. Mr Squier 
says “it is not known that many ancient remains occur in this 
county,” and these are all reported. Schoolcraft speaks however 
of an old fort in a swamp at Barnegat now Shelby Center which is 
noted above. 
Oswego county. As a rule few important works or sites are 
found near Lake Ontario, as there was little security there except 
where there were rocky banks as on the Genesee river. “Temporary 
fishing villages were more frequent and some should yet be found 
where streams of some size enter the lake, though the traces are 
rare. 
1 Otianhatague, or Canohage, was at the. mouth of Salmon 
river, and there was a fishing village there in 1654 and the following 
year. It does not seem to have been of long continuance as no 
one was there in 1656. Few relics are found. 
2 In Crisfield Johnson’s History of Oswego county, p. 60 is an ac- 
count of a mound near Trout brook in the north part of Albion, 
which rose from the midst of level land. It was probably a natural 
elevation but many relics are reported close beside it. On the top 
of a hill near by was a circular bank inclosing about two acres. It 
had a ditch. 
