THE ARCHEOI.OGICAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK l6l 



do. And it should be recorded that several hundred of the younger 

 men volunteered for the late war as soldiers of the American and 

 Canadian expeditionary forces and went overseas in almost every 

 capacity from private to captain, thereby in the most effective manner 

 strengthening the bonds that unite them, the Iroquois, with the com- 

 mon brotherhood of nations. Thus we may see whither they go, but 

 our problem has been to determine whence they came. Our infor- 

 mation as we have seen, points to a source to the west, and down the 

 Ohio. We ought to find plain evidences of early Iroquois sites all 

 along the Ohio river and westward along the shores of Lake Erie 

 and even as far as Wisconsin, thence southward to the mouth of 

 the Ohio. 



