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  cient 
  massacre 
  and 
  pillage, 
  in 
  which 
  an 
  Indian 
  village 
  was 
  destoyed, 
  

   and 
  the 
  bones 
  of 
  the 
  slain 
  afterwards 
  collected 
  and 
  buried 
  by 
  their 
  

   friends. 
  The 
  bones 
  were 
  in 
  a 
  tolerable 
  state 
  of 
  preservation, 
  but 
  soon 
  

   decayed 
  on 
  exposure. 
  It 
  was 
  estimated 
  that 
  there 
  were 
  between 
  thirty 
  

   and 
  forty 
  skeletons 
  buried 
  here, 
  besides 
  detached 
  bones 
  of 
  animals. 
  

  

  Among 
  fragments 
  of 
  broken 
  pottery 
  found 
  in 
  this 
  vicinity, 
  was 
  an 
  

   entire 
  pot, 
  having 
  a 
  capacity 
  of 
  about 
  three 
  pints, 
  and 
  the 
  form 
  repre- 
  

   sented 
  in 
  the 
  sketch. 
  

  

  A 
  fragment 
  of 
  a 
  pipe, 
  containing 
  the 
  representation 
  of 
  'a 
  human 
  face 
  

   on 
  each 
  side, 
  only 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  which 
  remained, 
  was 
  also 
  found 
  ; 
  a 
  figure 
  

   of 
  which 
  is 
  here 
  inserted. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Macomb, 
  St. 
  Lawrence 
  county, 
  are 
  found 
  three 
  trench 
  

   enclosures, 
  and 
  numerous 
  places 
  where 
  broken 
  fragments 
  of 
  rude 
  potte- 
  

   ry, 
  ornaments 
  of 
  steatite, 
  and 
  beds 
  of 
  charcol 
  and 
  ashes, 
  indicate 
  the 
  

   sites 
  of 
  Indian 
  villages. 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  proper 
  to 
  state, 
  that 
  this 
  region 
  was 
  

   not 
  inhabited 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  its 
  first 
  settlement 
  by 
  the 
  whites. 
  

  

  One 
  of 
  these 
  ruins 
  is 
  on 
  the 
  farm 
  of 
  William 
  P. 
  Houghton, 
  near 
  the 
  

   bank 
  of 
  Birch 
  creek, 
  and 
  is 
  the 
  one 
  which 
  has 
  furnished 
  the 
  greatest 
  

  

  