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10 W. H. Conkling also reported a camp on Hog island in 

 Bingate's creek south of Catskill village. 



Hamilton county. There were no known villages in this county, 

 only camps on lakes and rivers. Herbert M. Lloyd^ of New 

 York city, furnished the following notes of sites. He said, " I have 

 examined the shores of a number of Adirondack lakes with only 

 negative results, excepting in the cases of Lakes Piseco, Pleasant, 

 Sacandaga (usually called Round lake) and Indian lake." 



1 On the northwest and west shores of Piseco lake along Ironde- 

 quoit bay and near the outlet, are a dozen places where early relics 

 have been found. On a large rock on an island at the outlet, " are 

 tliree parallel grooves about six inches long and half an inch apart 

 evidently of artificial origin." 



2 At the angle and the bay of the outlet below^ were two camps 

 yielding rehcs. 



3 Three similar camps on the south shore of the lake between 

 Benton's and Rude's points. 



4 Eight camps at the northeast end. 



5 In H. P. Smith's Modern babes in the woods, p. 276, it is said that 

 " traces of an Indian fortress are still apparent on Pine island," in 

 Smith's lake. 



6 On an island and on the main land on the east side of Sacan- 

 daga lake there are two camps. 



7 There are three camps on the outlet of the same lake. One 

 of these is on the lake shore and the others on Lake Pleasant. 



8 Another camp is on the north shore of Lake Pleasant at its 

 inlet. These were reported by Herbert M. Lloyd. A camp 

 on each side of this stream, on the north shore of Lake Pleasant. 

 Another at the northeast angle of the lake, north side of the outlet. 



As the entire wilderness was but a hunting resort, the Iroquois 

 thought it was not intended to be inhabited. On one early map 

 it appears as " Cough-sa-ra-ge, the dismal wilderness." On another 

 it is " Cough-sa-gra-ge, or the beaver hunting grounds of the Six 

 Nations." This name may come from Koh-sa-ke, winter, in allu- 

 sion to the cold climate. On another map it appears as " Tysch- 

 sa-ron-dia, where the Iroquois hunted beaver." An intelligent 



