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buckles " and like ornaments. — Harris, p. 46. There was a gully- 

 east of these and a cemetery a few rods beyond. Harris says that 

 the small island on the west side of the bay on which the Schneider 

 house stands is of artificial origin. It was elliptic and 17 feet high, 

 built of alternate layers of clay and sand, which were removed. 

 In the center 15 feet below the surface was a bushel of fine stone 

 implements. — Harris, p. 46. The French built Fort des Sables neai 

 the Sea Breeze site in 1716. — Harris, p. 63 



19 From Irondequoit landing to the lake all is historic according 

 to Harris. There was an Indian cemetery just north of the float 

 bridge road with 200 grave mounds in rows. There were great 

 corn hills in the woods near by and there was a landing place on 

 Plum Orchard point just below. — Harris, p. 45 



20 A trail ran near the lake to Sodus. " The village last occu- 

 pied by Seneca Indians in Webster was located on the ridge near 

 this path about one mile east of this bay, and the latter day Mis- 

 sissauges camped on the same ground." Near this and in a hollow 

 north of the landing 12 skeletons were found in a circle like the 

 spokes of a wheel with feet to the center, where were rude stone 

 reHcs. Modern relics occur all about Rochester on high lands. 

 Graves in hollows or ravines have early ones, A mound on a 

 blufif north of Dunbar hollow yielded many stone implements. — 

 Harris, p. 45 



21 On the east shore of the bay opposite the mounds on the 

 west side was a large sepulchral mound. — Squier, p. 57 



22 A trail ran to a salt spring one and one half miles east of 

 the bay and half that distance from the lake. There the Indians 

 camped and made salt. — Harris, p. 45 



23 Squier could learn nothing of a fort in Penfield mentioned 

 by Macauley. — Squier, p. 58. Harris identified it with an oblit- 

 erated fort on the sandbar trail north of the ridge and quite large. 

 The arrowheads were large and broad. — Harris, p. 45 



24 Capt. John Schuyler built a trading post at the noted Indian 

 landing on Irondequoit creek in 1721. The foundations were 

 found in 1798. This was a place of resort. — Harris, p. 6y. Half 

 a mile south of this landing at some springs were many camps and 

 relics. — Harris, p. 39 



