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17 Two considerable inclosures were in Rush near the village 

 of West Rush and on the banks of Honeoye creek, which defended 

 one of these on one side. The other was on higher ground 100 

 rods southward. Each was of four acres a"nd had caches and 

 broken pottery. — Squier, p. 60. Piles of stones of uniform size, 

 a little larger than a hen's egg, were found on Isaac Cox's farm, 

 one and one quarter miles northeast of West Rush. 



Skeletons were found a mile northwest of West Rush. Many iron 

 tomahawks and war arrowheads have been found in a slight gully 

 three fourths of a mile northwest of West Rush, and 12 skeletons 

 were exhumed in digging a cellar about the same distance north 

 of that village. Across the road others were found. These were 

 on the land of Peter Martin and J. B. Hamilton. A little east of 

 these were early traces of an earthwork. Similar traces have been 

 reported north of Honeoye creek, over a quarter of a mile north 

 of West Rush. At another village site half a mile west of West 

 Rush, between the N. Y. C. railroad and the creek, Mr Clapp says 

 "Two distinct races have been found; the platycnemic man and 

 also another race. There are many relics in the graves of the 

 latter. Also pottery, pipes, etc., on the surface." 



18 " On the shore of Lake Ontario on a high bluflf near Iron- 

 dequoit bay in 1796 the bank caved off and untombed a great 

 quantity of human bones of a large size." — Turner, P. & G. p. 428. 

 It was a natural sand mound west of the present west angle of 

 the bay. "As late as 1830 human bones of an unusually large 

 size were occasionally seen projecting, from the face of the blufif 

 or lying on the beach." — Harris, p. 22. Others are placed under 

 this number. " Two mounds occupy the high sandy grounds to 

 the westward of Irondequoit bay where it connects with Lake 

 Ontario. Tliey are small, the' largest not exceeding five feet in 

 height." They had been opened and only charcoal and pieces of 

 bones remained. Early relics were on this hight. — Squier, p. 

 56-57, pi. 7, no. 2. Squier's plan is given m fig. 57. They were 

 on the hill south of the Sea Breeze hotel about 30 feet northeast 

 of the observatory. Harris was told that W. H. Penfield opened 

 them in 1817 and found a " sword scabbard, bands of silver, belt 



