ABORIGINAL OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK 49 



S. G. Baldwin's bottom lands east of Clear creek. — U. S. bur. of eth. 



P- 507 



36 An elliptic work in Ellington, on Clear creek, is i68 by 218 

 feet. There is no trench and the wall is wide. A stone mound, 4 

 feet wide and 5 feet high, is 70 rods away and toward the creek. — 

 Cheney, p. 42, pi. 6, fig. i. This plan appears in fig. 13 on a scale 

 of 250 feet to one inch. It is on Charles Gapleson's land, south side 

 of Clear creek and 2 miles east of Ellington. — U. S. bur. of eth. 

 p. 508 



37 Two bone mounds were in Ellicott. One was near Dexter- 

 ville and the other on Tiffany's farm. Near the latter were fortifica- 

 tions. — Young 



38 There* were two mounds on Albert Tiffany's farm on the line 

 of the Holland purchase, one and one half miles east of Jamestown 

 on the Ellington road. A gorget was found in one. — U. S. bur. of 

 eth. p. 505 



39 There was a semicircular bank near Falconer's, on the James- 

 town and Ellington road. It was near a stream and was 540 feet 

 long. — U. S. bur. of eth. p. 505 



40 An artificial mound containing large French knives and other 

 relics, was opened near Jamestown a few years since. 



41 Skeletons were found under a large stump in Frewsburg. 



42 Large numbers of human bones have been found near Fen- 

 tonville. — Larkin, p. 60 



43 While digging a cellar on the lake front at Chautauqua^ Sep. 

 27, 1898, the workmen exhumed 12 skulls and other bones. 



44 ^larcus Sackett reports a half circular fort near Hanover 

 Center, through which the highway passes. Obliterated. A few 

 arrowheads are still found. 



Chenmng connty. This county seems to have been occupied 

 about the time of the discovery by a nation of the Iroquois family 

 at war with the Five Nations. They are thought to have been the 

 people whose aid Champlain expected in his attack on the Iroquois 

 fort in 161 5. Gen. J. S. Clark has no doubt that they were those 

 mentioned in the description of Champlain's map as ** Carantouanis 

 a nation to the south of the Antouhonorons in a very beautiful and 

 rich country where they are strongly lodged, and are friends with 



