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together. . . They were of all sizes from one to six inches 

 long, some perfect, others partly finished. There were also a 

 number of blocks of the same kind of stone found in the rough 

 state." — Furman, p. 31 



2 A barren sand hill in Brooklyn in 1826 was covered with 

 vitrified and decomposed stones. From one and one half to foUr 

 feet below the surface was a layer of ashes and cinders with broken 

 clay pipes, coarse pottery and arrowheads. — Furman, p. 98 



3 There are immense shell heaps at Canarsie or Flatlands, and 

 on Bergen island. — Thompson, p. 66 



4 An old cemetery was found in South Brooklyn in 1897, on 

 Avenue U, and near Ryder's pond and Sheepshead bay. Deep 

 beds of oyster shells had the outer side of the shells uppermost. 

 Pottery was found and over a dozen skeletons. There were a few 

 other shells and fragments of bone. — Amer. arch. 1898 



Lewis county. Few sites have been reported here but the state 

 museum has a few relics from Martinsburg. J. S. Twining 

 furnishes the following notes. 



' I On the Kinsman farm, Martinsburg, skeletons and pipes, one 

 of these having orifices for stems. 



2 On the east bank of Black river across from Deer River sta- 

 tion are many very old hut rings with stone gouges, arrowheads 

 and spears. 



3 Another site at Gates's mill yard is two miles above. 

 Livingston county. This was the later territory of the Senecas 



and they may have partially occupied it at an earlier day. Most 

 of the sites however are recent. 



1 Dynneganooh a recent village on the northwest margin of the 

 great spring in Caledonia. Besides hatchets and copper kettles, 

 curious pottery has been found there. — Doty, p. 82-83. This was 

 one of the magic springs of the Senecas. 



2 Three miles south of the Wheatland forts on the Genesee and 

 probably in Caledonia, was a mound once 8 feet high and filled with 



unarranged human bones. — Squier, p. 60 



3 In surveying the Kanawageas reservation in 1798 Judge Porter 

 found an old fort on the open flats which included nearly two acres. 



