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attention to it/ Local collectors such as Doctors Getman and 

 Amidon in Chaumont, and Messrs Loveland, Oatman and Wood- 

 worth at Watertown, have excavated much with good success, as 

 their collections will testify.^ 



It was thought best to visit as many sites as possible in order to 

 get a general archeological view of the country, and to locate if 

 possible a favorable place for excavation. Two weeks were spent in 

 this work with fairly satisfactory results. It was found in almost 

 every case that the sites had been so thoroughly excavated by the 

 local enthusiasts that it would not pay to examine them further. 

 Except in one site, which was in the lowlands, all had been tam- 

 pered with and the refuse heaps cleared out ; and at this site 

 (Durfee farm) we spent the last part of the season. The first part, 

 from June 15th to September ist, was occupied in exploring the 

 Heath site in the hill country, where w^e were lucky enough to find a 

 lot of graves and ash pits undisturbed although the refuse heaps had 

 all been dug over. 



But before taking these up I will give a brief summary of the 

 other places visited during the first two weeks of our work and at 

 odd times during the whole season. 



Beginning in the northern part of the country, and taking the sites 

 in geographical order, not necessarily in the order of examination, 

 we find first the St Lawrence site, to which wx were directed by 

 Doctor Getman. The site is situated along some low bluffs at the 

 headwaters of a little brook flowing into the St Lawrence river, 

 just southeast of the village of the same name, on the property of 

 Doctor Buckman. All the refuse heaps of this site had been 

 examined apparently, together with many of the ash pits, by Doctors 

 Getman and Amidon and their friends. Our brief examination 

 showed that the place had been occupied by Irocjuoian people. Ash 

 pits were unusually numerous for a Jeft'erson county site and indi- 

 cations seemed fairly promising. If we had not found other and 

 better sites we might have begun systematic exploration here. We 

 found part of a stone pipe, several terra-cotta pipe stones, a stone 

 anvil, and numerous potsherds here. 



One lake shore site only was visited — the village and burial 

 ground near Limerick, on the Julius Maynard farm at the head of 

 Perch River bav- Here a series of terraces rise from the bav. The 



^ Squier, E. G., Antiquities of the State of New York, chap, on Jefferscn 



count}^; Hough, F. B., History of Jefferson County, ch. i. 



^ The Amidon, Loveland and Oatman Collections arc now in the Slate 

 Museum. 



