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ditch." De Witt Clinton described it as " elliptical in shape " and 

 said that it covered 3 acres (Squier, p. 32). Mr Clark made it a 

 square of 4^^ acres. He adds that " On the south side were numer- 

 ous holes about 2 feet deep and 6 feet apart as if an intrenchment 

 or circumvallation had been commenced and not finished." In his 

 plan these appear in a straight line. They were probably caches 

 (Clark, 2:326). Doctor Beauchamp examined the spot with Mr 

 Hunter, who had owned the place since 1840. The work is on a 

 broad elliptic hill and extended some distance down the sides. The 

 long axis is from north to south and the area about 23.4 acres. 



89 There is an account of the forts on lots 70 and 81, Elbridge, 

 in a journal kept by Lieut. Col. William Stevens, who visited them 

 in October 1791. In Onondaga's centennial (p. 685), these are in- 

 correctly located on lot 84. The description is good, but it has few 

 details regarding the smaller work. The timber seemed a second 

 growth in and around the fort. The work on lot 70 was elliptic, the 

 longest diameter being north and south, inclosing about 2^ acres. 

 There was a gate in the east as well as the west bank. " The hut- 

 ments on each side are plain to be seen." In both cases the trees on 

 the wall were larger than the others, but this was due to the more 

 rapid growth in made soil. (Beauchamp.) 



Doctor Beauchamp gives his own plan of the small fort on lot 81, 

 one-half of a mile southeast of the last, and a mile west of Elbridge 

 village on the old Squire Munro farm. Mr Clinton described 

 this as half as large as the last and of the same form. Unio 

 shells are also found here (Squier, p. 32). Mr Clark said 

 the bank and ditch could easily be traced in 1793 and that the 

 area was i^ acres. It seems less than this. He said there was a 

 gateway on the west side about 12 feet wide. His figure makes this 

 wall slightly convex and all the others straight (Clark, 2:325). 

 There is an abrupt descent on the west side into a deep ravine, and 

 on the south there is a quick slope to the Munro house. The east 

 and north walls were on level land. 



90 Fort described by Mr Clark on lot 73 a little east of Elbridge 

 village. *' On the site of Mr Caleb Brown's house and garden, in- 

 cluding a portion of the highway, was an ancient circular fort, con- 

 taining a little over an acre of ground, within which were evidences 

 of a blacksmith shop, and many common relics" (Clark, 2:327). 

 All Elbridge forts, however, were prehistoric (Beauchamp). 



91 Circular inclosure on lot 84, on the farm now owned by Caleb 

 Brown (1849) aboi^^t 40 rods south of the road was a circular fort 

 which covered over 3 acres of ground (Clark). There was a wide 



