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occupancy. The great serpent ate allthe people. It seems the fort 
usually referred to Naples at the head of the lake. 
2 The “ Old fort ” in Shearman’s hollow was a prehistoric earth- 
work near the schoolhouse on lot 48, Jerusalem.—Cleaveland, p. 449- 
50. It was near Friend on the north line of the town and was a 
rectangle of two acres. Pottery occurs there and a large stone 
mortar was found. Dr S. H. Wright however reports it as a stock- 
_ ade with two trenches and many openings. There was a cemetery 
near. 
3 A valley southeast of Italyhill was much frequented and three 
artificially grooved boulders were found on ‘Mr Paddock’s farm. 
This was a mile southeast of that village. 
4 An Indian village and orchard were a few rods south of Italy 
Hollow. Another village and orchard were a mile north of the 
Big Elm in the same valley. 
5 Grooved boulders occur in Guyanoga valley about one and one 
half miles from Branchport. A cemetery is near these on D. W. 
Dickinson’s land. 
6 There are graves on the Ellsworth farm half a mile northeast 
of Branchport. 
7 A burial mound and cemetery with mostly modern relics near, 
have been described on the west shore of Lake Keuka. Several 
circular structures of sandstone were on the east side of the outlet 
near the lake.—Cleaveland, p. 715 
8 Graves on lot 43, Milo, on the Thayer place near the lake are 
mentioned in this. Early and recent relics. Probably the same as 
an old work on lot 34, which is three and three fourths miles south 
of Penn Yan and less than a mile east of the lake. It occupied about 
six acres and had one trench. There was a large cemetery toward 
the lake. 
9 Bones and mica were found in a mound on the west side of 
Bluff Point about two miles from its southern end. 
10 Dr S. H. Wright fully described and illustrated some curious 
remains on lots 5 and 6, Bluff Point, eight miles south of Penn Yan. 
He called it a system of graded ways but so unlike any New York 
