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Few sites have been reported in this county, but from the many 

 Indian names and favorable places there should be more. 



Cortland county. Cortland county was little more than a 

 thoroughfare for the aborigines^ nor was it much used in this way 

 until after 1700, when the Iroquois had frequent business with Penn- 

 sylvania. "An account of some curious caches in Homer has an ex- 

 travagant sounds but others have been found between Cortland and 

 the Tioughnioga river. Flint arrowheads have been found im- 

 bedded in trees on the west bank of this stream. Mr Goodwin 

 opened a mound in 1855, which contained charcoal, " fragments of 

 mouldering bones and singularly wrought impressions on the sur- 

 face of dark, slatish colored stones." — Goodwin, p. 141. The 

 locality was not given. 



1 A small site on the west bank of the river north of Blodgett 

 Mills, with arrowheads and other articles. 



2 Dr Hunt built a house in 1794 a mile south of Marathon on 

 the east side of the river. It was on a knoll where there were many 

 circular depressions near together. About 1850 these graves were 

 opened, and earthen vessels and human bones were found. — Good- 

 win, p. 226 



3 A camp in Lapeer south of Mr Genung's house on a bluff 

 near and overlooking Big brook. — Goodwin, p. 259 



Delaware county, i There was an Indian fort at Sidney Plains, 

 of three acres inclosed by mounds and surrounded by a ditch. It 

 was on the Susquehanna in the northwest corner of Sidney. "From 

 early times the place has been called the fort grounds." — French, 

 p. 264. This may be the fort of which David Cusick spoke as the 

 second home of the giant, the first being at Oxford. 



2 There was an Indian village at the mouth of Cole's brook, on 

 the north side of the Delaware in Colchester. Some apple-trees re- 

 mained. — French, p. 260 



3 " Near the mouth of Mill brook and on the banks of the Dela- 

 ware are certain remains which bear a strong resemblance to works 

 of art. Many suppose them to have been ancient fortifications or 

 works of defense. In the vicinity was once found what was sup- 

 posed to have been a stone battle axe, and arrowheads existed in 



