ABORIGINAL OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK 4 1 



two deep gulfs, half a mile west of Milan. The graves are dis- 

 tributed in rows east and west." 



32 Macauley says, '* On the east side of the Seneca river near 

 Montezuma, there are still to be seen the ruins of a small fort. A 

 small mound occurs not far from the fort; it is artificial." 



33 .There is a site on lot 15 Scipio, which yields no European 

 articles. It embraces two acres south of the creek. The cemetery 

 is slightly raised. 



34 Graves on the hillside about a mile west of Venice Center. 



35 Mr Hildburgh reports the following. Recent graves two and 

 a half miles north of Genoa. 



36 Obliterated earthwork in the town of Niles, a little north of 

 the Moravia line and a mile east of Owasco lake, on M. B. Duryee's 

 farm. , 



37 Camp on the flats at the south end of Owasco lake. 



38 In October 1899 an early cemetery was opened a little west 

 of Throopsville station. 



Chautauqua county. Most of the sites reported in Chautauqua 

 county are east of a meridian line through Chautauqua lake. Most 

 of them may be referred to the Eries of an early day or to some 

 kindred people, but there are traces of those much farther advanced 

 in the arts. Some work was done by H. L. Reynolds in 1889, 

 which appears in the report of the U. S. bureau of ethnology, 

 1890-91. The southwest part of the county might be expected to re- 

 pay examination, for all this region is a border land between the Iro- 

 quoian family and the earlier race a little farther south,, for con- 

 venience termed mound builders. All the plans given are from 

 Mr Cheney's brief but interesting report published by the regents 

 many years ago. It is to be regretted that he gave so little in- 

 formation on the relics occurring there, but these seem to have 

 interested him little. He chose rather the more impressive mounds 

 and forts. 



Artificial roadways were reported by Dr H. C. Taylor, in his 

 History of Portland. They were near Brocton, but prove to be 

 natural beds of gravel as is the case elsewhere. Grooved axes are 

 sometimes found. Arrowheads, gouges, etc. often occur along or 



