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" Two mounds formerly stood upon the land of Albert Tiffany 

 i^ miles from Jamestown on the Ellington road, but have been 

 removed and nothing reliable is known in regard to their contents. 

 While examining the site of these mounds a stone gorget similar to 

 that found at Whitney's landing was obtained." 



The remains of an ancient earthwork near Talcoms, which fol- 

 lowed the bank of the stream at this place, were examined. It was 

 semicircular in form, in length following the curve, being about 540 

 feet. It was utilized in the construction of the Mill race (now 

 abandoned) and was built 3 or 4 feet higher than it was originally 

 and somewhat lengthened. 



Ellery. On the east side of Chautauqua lake are many aboriginal 

 relics which were examined by the writer and J. L. Bugbee of Stock- 

 ton in October 1875. At Long Point an abundance of arrowheads 

 and Indian implements were found in former years. 



At Bemus Point near the cleared fields and improvements that 

 were undoubtedly made by the Senecas before the settlement of the 

 county, were more ancient relics. At the line between the Fellow and 

 Hazeltine farms and east of the lake road was an artificial mound 

 which we found to be 30 feet across and 4 or 5 feet high. Eighty 

 feet east of this was another mound fully as large. 



These mounds were described in Thomas's report to the Bureau 

 of Ethnology to the Smithsonian Institution as situated about 100 

 rods from the north shore of Chautauqua lake. Mound i, 6 feet 

 high and 39 feet in diameter, was explored with the following results : 

 fragments of decayed human bones, some copper beads, a fragment 

 of a copper ornament and scraps of mica were found at a depth of 

 3^ feet, an arrowhead was found 2 feet below the surface; animal 

 bones with a piece of decayed wood at from 2 to 3 feet. The mound 

 was explored to the natural surface without any further results. 

 Mound 2, about 4 rods directly east of No. i, measured 55 feet in 

 diameter and 5 feet high. William Fenton states that seven or eight 

 years ago this mound was explored but nothing of interest was found 

 in it. 



Faint traces of an aboriginal embankment was noticed upon the 

 high land back from this point (Long Point) overlooking the lake. 



Doctor Larkin says fifty years ago (1830) that he was informed 

 by a white settler at Dewittville that vast quantities of relics had been 

 found in that vicinity — that while a cellar was being dug there, 

 about a peck of arrowheads was exhumed, all of which were 4 feet 

 below the surface. 



Fluvanna. A little distance west of Fluvanna about one-half of 

 a mile from the lake within the bounds of the highway running north 



