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Sinclairville from bluff to bluff, precipices defending the other sides. 

 The area is nearly square (Cheney, p. 45, pi. 9). 



29 There are two works on the farm of John Almy, South 

 Stockton, a mile across the Cassadaga valley and nearly 60 rods 

 from the dividing lines of Gerr\' and EUery. The larger and south- 

 eastern one is in the shape of the letter D, the straight line fronting 

 the eastern edge of the bluff'. A northwest gateway connects with a 

 ravine, across which is the gate of the smaller, opposite and circular 

 work about 6 rods away. The latter incloses half an acre (Larkin, 

 p. 50, fig. II). 



Fig. 72 Sketch map of the Towerville fort rings, surveyed by Obed Edson 



30 There was a circular work 60 rods south of this, on the farm 

 of S. M. Tower. It "was a true circle, facing the south and divided 

 in the center by a straight line." This was on a plain on the west side 

 of the Cassadaga valley. From the western side of the fort a ditch, 



