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found by Mr Burmaster. Chipped flints are numerous. The forms 

 are notched arrow points of several types, scrapers, drills, spears 

 and knives. Long flakes of chalcedony and jasper are also 

 found. 



4 A mound on a hilltop near Napoli, Cattaraugus county, had 

 within it a stoned-up vault. Some of the fiat stones yet remain 

 but the mound has been nearly destroyed. Several gorgets, spears 

 and celts were found within the vault by Dr Frederick Larkin early 

 in the seventies of the last century. Doctor Larkin described the 

 mound to me in 1905. He found hiiman remains in the vault. 



5 A mound burial near Tonawanda creek excavated by Jacob 

 Doctor contained a banner stone, a birdstone, a bar amulet and 

 two gorgets. The mound is about 4 feet high, 25 feet in diameter 

 and situated on a gentle slope on the Tonawanda reservation, near 

 Indian Falls, Genesee county. The neighboring fields yield numerous 

 notched flint spear heads and arrow points. 



6 An isolated burial near Athens, Green county, and near the 

 Hudson contained a pendant gorget, more than one hundred native 

 copper beads, globular shell beads and pendant columella. 



7 On the John F. White estate at Squawkie Hill, Mount Morris, 

 are three low mounds. All contain graves, boxed by stone slabs, 

 the upper edges of which projected above the surface of the ground. 

 These graves contained two highly polished and finely formed 

 monitor pipes, many fresh-water pearls, two copper chisels, a copper 

 double cymbal ear ornament held by hollow copper rivets, two 

 gorgets, two celts and several finely chipped notched spears or 

 knives. In the fields about the mounds have been found nimierous 

 flints, many celts and several grooved axes, cylindrical and bell 

 pestles, notched choppers, broken and complete monitor pipes, and 

 one stone pipe bowl. There are numerous other objects, as broken 

 implements, harnmer stones, anvils and notched sinkers. 



8 Several graves have been found in a gravel bank near Vine 

 Valley on Canandaigua lake. None of the graves was opened by 

 experts and hence there was not opportunity for close observation. 

 The specimens found in the graves, however, are of exceptional 

 interest. From one grave was taken a large tablet gorget, a copper 

 chisel blade, a segment of a mastodon ivory dagger, an antler's awl, 

 a pendant gorget of bone, a bar amulet, a broken bar amulet and 

 two stone tubes. From another grave was taken a stone tube, two 

 long strings of shell beads, and a chipped knife, 10 inches in length. 

 Fragments of a large cord marked pottery jar were found similar 

 to the Irving pottery found by Mr Burmaster. 



