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south of Cazenovia and one and one half miles east of Delphi. It 

 has flint arrowheads. 



9 Mr Ledyard said there were graves on Quarry hill two miles^ 

 southeast of Cazenovia. This may refer to a place on the Jacksoa 

 farm one and one half miles southeast of Cazenovia village where 

 A. G. Richmond got a large grooved boulder in 1897. This lay a 

 little west of a comparatively modern Indian village site. 



10 Mr Ledyard reported an inclosure three miles northeast of 

 Cazenovia village, east of Bingley and near the quarry. This or 

 another has been described a mile west of Fenner. In the History 

 of Madison county, p. 200, a breastwork with early relics is men- 

 tioned east of schoolhouse no. 5. A skeleton was found in 1861 

 while placing a flagstaff at the school. 



11 The Nichols's pond site in Fenner three miles east of Perry- 

 ville, has been thought the fort attacked by Champlain in 161 5 and 

 has more points of agreement than others. The identification is 

 due to Gen. John S. Clark of Auburn, but the site is in the Oneida 

 territory, not the Onondaga. A limestone boulder on the site and 

 near the pond and which is over 12 feet long, is probably the original 

 Oneida stone. The usual Iroquois articles are found but no traces 

 of a palisade. Four lines of pickets may have furnished their 

 own support without holes. The stockade must have extended 

 some distance into the very shallow pond, now sometimes dry, in 

 order to secure an abundant supply of water. This is but a few 

 inches deep. Ridiculous estimates have been made of the size of 

 the village, which was not more than 500 by 700 feet, not including 

 the pond. The site is a low plateau, extending over 800 feet from 

 the road on the east to the inlet and low land on the west. Relics 

 occur only on the west side; nothing appears in the stony ground 

 eastward. The northern part is a thin woodland, and no traces were 

 found in a plowed field south of this and 500 feet from the west 

 bank. The village was confined to that part east of the inlet. Not 

 far from the mouth of this the outlet leaves the pond, flowing east 

 southeast. Some caches appear on the northeast bank. The site 

 is secluded, with no natural defense. The low lands on the west are 

 subject to overflow, but the site fairly agrees with Champlain's ac- 



