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F. B. Hough did good work in his histories and reports, being 

 our fullest authority on the antiquities of northern New York. 

 A. T. Cheney prepared a paper for the regents reports, on the 

 earthworks of Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties. All wish that 

 these reports had been extended. L. H. Morgan's League of the 

 Ho-de-no-sau-nec or Iroquois has a map of their home territory with 

 recent trails. Of the early homes and history of that great people 

 he said little, but as a record of later Seneca life in every phase his 

 work is priceless. It takes little note of any Indian towns before 

 the revolution. 



Dr Frederick Larkin's Ancient man in America adds much from 

 his own field work to Mr Cheney's account of Cattaraugus county. 

 Rev. Robert Bolton's History of the county of Westchester has a 

 long list of sites, mostly of recent date. L. L. Doty's History 

 of Livingston county gives an extended account of places occupied 

 in that part of the Seneca territory. George H. Harris has ably 

 and fully dealt with the still earlier occupation of the lower Genesee 

 valley, where he was a conscientious worker, and in Andrew 

 W. Young's History of Chautauqua some additional matter will 

 be found. Onondaga's centennial contains a full account of that in- 

 teresting field by Rev. W. M. Beauchamp, in which the important 

 camp sites, so little understood before, have a place. S. L. Frey 

 has ably described notable sites in the Mohawk valley, the most 

 recently occupied of any part of New York. Valuable facts have 

 come from other authorities yet to be quoted. In the initial work 

 of showing the connection between abandoned sites and historic 

 events and times, great credit is due to Gen. John S. Clark of 

 Auburn. By actual field work and vigorous reasoning, he solved 

 many mysteries, and traced back the Iroquois in their migrations 

 for nearly 300 years. The benefit was not merely in his own per- 

 sonal investigations. He directed others aright and their work 

 became more definite and yielded better results. 



A few years ago Cyrus Thomas was employed in preparing 

 an account of the earthworks east of the Rocky mountains, and 

 engaged Rev. W. M. Beauchamp to report on the Huron-Iroquois 

 territory in general, but more particularly on that comprised within 



