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1 St Regis is on the boundary line on the St Lawrence; the 

 inhabitants are mostly of Moha^vk, Onondaga and Cayuga lineage. 

 The band has been recently taken in by the Six Nations of New 

 York to supply the place of the Mohawks. A burial mound on 

 St Regis island was opened in 1818. The upper deposits of bones 

 were well preserved. The lower ones were charred. — Squier, p. 15; 

 Hough, p. 25 



2 Near this on the east bank of St Regis river another was after- 

 ward opened. — Hough, p. 25 



Fulton county, i It is said that there were two Indian villages 

 in Garoga before the revolution, one near Garoga and the other 

 near Stink lake. Flint arrowheads, etc. were found. — Frothingham, 



P- 567 



2 A site of four acres on Indian hill in Ephrata is on an oblong 

 and steep sandy hill east of Garoga creek. Originally the paHsade 

 holes could be seen, but not when the writer explored it after it 

 had been long cleared. Mr S. L. Frey says that the pits from 

 which the clay for pottery was taken, are abundant along the 

 foot of the hill near the small stream on the east side. It is the 

 oldest Mohawk site having pottery with human figures upon it, 

 and one long brass bead has been found. It was well described 

 by Mr Frey in the American naturalist in 1885, ^^^ was probably 

 occupied about 1600. 



3 An early stockade of about the same date on the east bank 

 of Cayadutta creek a mile north of Sammonsville, was found in 

 1892. A trench across a ridge about 349 feet long, inclosed a 

 triangle between two ravines. This was 369 feet long. Relics as 

 in the last, even to the long brass bead. Fig. 34 is from R. A. 

 Grider's measurement and plan. One by Robert M. Hartley, 

 in Popular science news, June 1896, is somewhat different. Area 

 two and three fourths acres. Unio shells abundant. 



4 There are many arrowheads on Summer house point, and on 

 Sacondaga Vly town of Broadalbin. — Frothingham, p. 491 



Genesee county. The state museum has articles from this 

 county early and recent. Mr Squier said there had been many 

 interesting sites, but they were then hard to trace and some could 

 not be defined. 



