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23. Leaden cross, of Maltese shape, referring to missions of the Je- 



suits ; and a bone rifle charger, found in a field that is known 

 in song as "The Place of Bones." This field lies at the 

 foot of a wooded ridge, in view of the village of Avon, and 

 is supposed by Colonel Stone and myself to have been the 

 scene of conflict between De Nonville and the Senecas, 

 though my friend 0. H. Makshall is of a different opinion. 

 A few years since, I was in possession of a skull picked 

 up on the battle ground, with a bullet hole through the os 

 frontis. My father, when the ground was first ploughed, 

 picked up a dagger with the arms of Louis XIV stamped 

 on the finely wrought blade. It remained in his possession 

 many years, and then was either stolen or lost. 



24. French axes, found at an old Jesuit station on the Mendon road. 



25. French axes, found on the site of a village near the dividing line 



between Avon and Lima, supposed by 0. H. Marshall and 

 myself to have been a famous town known to the Jesuits in 

 the 17th century as Dyiu-don-sot, or village at the spring. 

 Presented to me by 0. H. M. 



26. Decoy fish, used by the Saginaw Indians, Michigan, in winter. 



They drop the decoy through the holes cut in the ice, to 

 entice the trout from his watery lair below. As he approaches 

 the surface, the expert spearman on the watch easily secures 

 the prize. 



27. Fragments of fire-arms, picked up on the supposed battle ground 



of De Nonville. 



28. Cannon ball found by workmen, while building a bridge at Little- 



ville, across the Conesus, four or five feet below the bed of 

 the stream. 



29. Teeth of animals, etc. found in an Indian burial place near the 



banks of the Genesee. 



30. Large arrow-head and stone deerskin-dresser, found on the farm 



of F. M. Cutler, in a field south of Gore brook, Avon, bound 

 with bark cord of Indian manufacture. 



3L Heavy bar of lead, stamp still visible ; knife point ; fragment of a 

 skull ; stone deerskin-dresser, and fragments of brazen 

 implements, found in graves in a sidehill on the farm of 

 Richard Wilber, Avon, A bone cross, to use his expression, 

 "lined and specked," was also found, but either lost or stolen. 

 Below the depth penetrated by the ploughshare, ashes, 

 charcoal, and charred kernels of maize are discovered in this 



