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9 Fort Hill in Le Roy is 3 miles north of Le Roy village. Squier 

 gave a plan by L. H. Morgan essentially reproduced in h,is figure 37. 

 It is on a table-land bordered on three sides by the deep ravines of 

 Fordhams brook and Allen creek. The steep banks are nearly too 

 feet high. The peninsula is 1300 feet from north to south and quite 

 wide. A bank and ditch at the broadest part were 1500 feet long 

 and nearly straight, the western end curving down the ravine. Skele- 

 tons, pottery, beads, pipes, stone axes and arrowheads were found. 

 Baked clay beads are mentioned (Squier, p. 69, 70, fig. 7). C. 

 Dewey sent a similar plan to Schoolcraft, given in the latter's report 

 but having some arbitrary features and variations. He made the 

 north trench 60 rods and the east line 30 rods. At the northwest 

 corner was a cemetery (Schoolcraft, Report, p. 246-49). It has 

 been described by others, but while there are plain signs of partial 

 occupation the supposed work is now conceded to be natural. The 

 clay beads " are long and coarse." A more detailed description is 

 found on pages 310-313. 



10 " On what is called the Knowlton farm about i mile south of 

 the town of Batavia is a small natural elevation which was used as a 

 burial place by the Indians. It has been mistaken for a mound. 

 Various relics have been discovered in plowing over it " (Squier, p. 

 71). " There are still traces of a mound on Knowlton's farm a mile 

 from Batavia up the Tonawanda. Bones and glass beads have been 

 plowed out of it" (Schoolcraft, Report, p. 215). It was about 50 

 rods from the creek, and 8 feet above the general level (Schoolcraft, 

 Report, p. 282). This seems the one mentioned by Macauley as 

 north (?) of Batavia, and originally 100 feet around and 10 or 12 

 feet high (Macauley, 2:113). 



11 Village site along the Tonawanda at the bend just east of the 

 Erie county line. 



12 Traces of occupation along Oak Orchard creek. 



13 Village site in Batavia. 



14 A cemetery in a gravel bank 6 miles south and east of Bergen, 

 has skeletons with and without early relics. There are fireplaces near. 

 Reported by C. F. Moseley. 



15 Camp site on south side of the main road on the eastern edge 

 of the village of Le Roy. It is on the eastern bank of a small creek 

 opposite the creamery on the farm of W. McCowan. This site was 

 opened in 191 5 during the road repair excavations. It does not 

 cippear to be of long occupation. Arrow points, celts and hammer- 

 stones have been found. The graveyard is thought by FI. C. Follett 

 to be on a knoll to the west. 



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