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55 Camp on Long point. The pottery is mostly old and crude, 

 but the writer found here some so indented within as to produce 

 a boss without. 



56 Fishing camps on south shore and southwest of head of 

 " Long carrying place." Old and crude pottery. 



57 Hamlets near Three Mile point. 



58 Flint knives and arrowheads between Chaumont and Depau- 

 ville, east of the creek. 



No county is more perplexing than this in locating sites from 

 descriptions, partly from their number and partly from the number 

 of authorities and their varying accounts. It will be seen that 

 Messrs Squier and Hough did not always agree in their plans as 

 has been the case elsewhere with others. That there are omissions 

 is certain, that some errors will be found is probable, as there was 

 time for but slight personal examination. 



It is an interesting field and mainly prehistoric. While many 

 things are like those of Onondaga, ossuaries show Huron ideas 

 not prevalent among the New York Iroquois, who traditionally 

 came out of the ground here. Mounds are more frequent, and the* 

 circular lodge sites of Perch lake are of a type unusual in New 

 York. Their true relations are partly known but will not be con- 

 sidered now. Local collections reveal peculiar articles while others 

 are absent, and we gain some definite historic ideas from those 

 called prehistoric. With slight exceptions the interior sites and all 

 the forts are Iroquoian in character, while most of those near the 

 St Lawrence and Lake Ontario are of earlier nations. 



Kings county. Few of the antiquities of this county have been 

 reported except in a very general way, nor were they ever conspicu- 

 ous. The Canarsies occupied this county and part of Jamaica. In 

 Notes geographical and historical relating to the town of Brooklyn, p. 

 2y, (a reprint of the edition of 1824) it is said, " Heads of Indian 

 arrows, beds of oyster and clam shells, denoting the former re- 

 sidence of the aborigines, are frequently found in different parts 

 of this town." 



I A few feet below the surface at the Narrows about 1837, " more 

 than a wagon load of Indian stone arrowheads were, found lying 



