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7 A Stone eelweir is just below this site and in the river. It has 

 three l)ays of nncciual lcn<^th reachini^" up tlie river as it tende;! 

 toward the north shore. It was buih of iield stone and was ahou.t 

 1200 feet long. It reaches the surface now only in very low water. 

 Part of another is below the Jack's reef bridge, and others are found, 

 elsewhere, as the Onondagas built many within historic times. 



8 Two hamlets of considerable size on J. Adsit's land, lot 76. close 

 to the river on both sides of a brook. They seem distinct and 

 have the usual relics but no pottery. There are several camps 

 between this and the last. 



9 Apparently a stockade town on the hilltop back of v\diat -.-v-as 

 Charles Emerick's house and high above the river road on lot 78, 

 Lysander, north of the Seneca river. All the usual relics and abund- 

 ant pottery but no drills or scrapers, which are absent from all Iro- 

 quoian forts. A fine spring on the terrace below. Shell of U n i o 

 c o m p 1 a n a t u s abound. A bone fishhook was found. 



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Fig. 82 Effigy of an animal head 



10 Two hamlets and a cemetery on G. A. Bigelow's land on the 

 hill in the north part of Baldwdnsville. In the hamlets were pipes, 

 arrowheads and celts. There were no relics with the skeletons, 

 which lay horizontally wnth the knees drawn up. There were camps 

 all through the present village. 



11 Extensive hamlet on the south side of Float bridge, lot 86, 

 Lysander, on the east bank of the river. A great deal of pottery 

 with other relics, but no scrapers or drills. 



12 A camp south of the railroad bridge and east of the river on 

 lot 87, with early relics and pottery. On the opposite bank were 

 fireplaces with pottery. 



Small hamlet at the Red rock rift, lot 93, one-half of a mile below. 



13 A circular earthwork on lot 89 of about 3 acres is now obliter- 

 ated. It was about 360 feet in diameter and the road passes through 

 the center. Pottery is abundant with the usual Iroquoian articles. 

 It is about 3 miles from Raldwinsville and i J/ miles from the rive* 



