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the trail ran southeasterly for some miles (a day's journey for an 

 Indian) to a station on the county line road lying about the 

 sources of Cold brook. Here the remains of occupancy are 

 spread over many acres, and encroach upon and partly cover a 

 permanent village site of the earliest inhabitants, whose remains 

 have already been described. The relics of these two sites are 

 exactly of the same character as those from Iroquoian stopping 

 places on their westernmost route by way of the St Lawrence. 

 They consist of fragments of the well-known clay pottery of the 

 Mohawk tribes; pipes of red pottery; small triangular flint 

 arrowheads ; acutely edged celts and a few small flint knives. 



A few years ago there was found on the site of the big bend 

 a fine specimen of the steel " trade axe " with which the traders 

 first armed their red neighbors. This is included in this collec- 

 tion and is in a fine state of preservation. There is also a fine 

 and keen steel arrow and shaft, obtained from a site at the 

 western base of Sugar Loaf mountain. Objects of copper have 

 been found at the same place. A broken stone pipe drilled with 

 steel tools of the white man comes from Glen lake. On the Bay 

 road, on the farm owned by Elber Titus, was a Mohawk camp 

 of late date. In addition to the small flint implements supplied 

 by such stations, this field yielded one of the choicest objects of 

 Mohawk manufacture which it has been my good fortune to 

 record. It is a flat limestone pebble three inches in mean 

 diameter, carved into the form of a young buck's antlers, and 

 perforated at one side near the base for the purpose of suspen- 

 sion. Both surfaces are delicately carved into ridges, giving a 

 corrugated appearance. It belongs to a class of objects termed 

 personal ornaments. About Lake George and on many of its 

 islands are frequent finds of Mohawk relics made. But the 

 Mohawk never returned to occupy the country as a permanent 

 residence. AVhat we find of him here are but the remains of 

 these temporary hunting or war camps, for he was often 

 attracted this way from his home on the " Beautiful river," by 

 the scent of game or scalps ; but it was only as an intruder that 

 he came. 



In their manufacture of stone implements, the aborigines used 

 such material as was found in their neighborhood. Where sup- 

 plies of flint were lacking, they made use of native quartzite and 

 even sandstone for their smaller weapons, as arrowheads, knives, 

 and spear points, as well as for heavier tools. These native supplies 



