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of the inclosed ground. There were traces of six gates or open- 

 ings, and near the center a way was dug to the water. . . At 

 some places at the bottom of the ditch Mr Kirkland ran his cane 

 a foot or more in the soil, from which circumstance he concludes 

 that the ditch was originally much deeper. Near the western (?) 

 fortification which was situated on high ground, he found the re- 

 mains of a funeral pile, where the slain were buried after a great 

 battle, which will be spoken of hereafter. The mound was about 

 six feet in height by 30 feet diameter at the base. The bones ap- 

 peared at the surface, projecting in many places at the sides." — 

 Squier, p. 66, 6y 



Mr Squier's quotation from Yates and Moulton's account of 

 Mr Kirkland's journal is not exact, but the only material difference 

 is a change from " northern fortification " in the original, to " west- 

 ern." — Yates, p. 16, 17. . It will be noticed also that Kirkland 

 speaks of the bone mound as being near the fort, as is probable, 

 instead of inside. 



5 Fort hill in Le Roy is three miles north of Le Roy village. 

 Squier gave a plan by L. H. Morgan essentially reproduced in fig. 

 37. It is on a table-land bordered on three sides by the deep ravines 

 of Fordham's brook and Allen's creek. The steep banks are nearly 

 100 feet high. The peninsula is 1300 feet from north to south and 

 quite wide. A bank and ditch at the broadest part were 1500 feet 

 long and nearly straight, the western end curving down the ravine. 

 Skeletons, pottery, beads, pipes, stone axes and arrowheads were 

 found. Baked clay beads are mentioned. — Squier, p. 69, 70, fig. 7. 

 C. Dewey sent a similar plan to Schoolcraft, given in the latter's re- 

 port but having some arbitrary features and variations. He made 

 the north trench 60 rods and the east line 30 rods. At the north- 

 west corner was a cemetery. — Schoolcraft. Report, p. 246-49. It 

 has been described by others, but while there are plain signs of par- 

 tial occupation the supposed work is now conceded to be natural. 

 The clay beads "are long and coarse." 



