i04 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Otsquago. A rocky precipice bounds the stream and defends the 

 fort on one side. There is a ravine on the other. About 700 feet 

 from the point was a bank from side to side, about 240 feet long 

 and sUghtly curving at the ends. The area was about six acres. 

 Squier reported European articles but later explorers find none. 

 His plan is given in fig. 73 but is there reduced. — Squier, p. 82, 83, 

 pi. 12. The articles are fine and of the best Iroquois types. Few 

 graves have been found. 



18 There is a small recent site a mile southwest of Fort Plain. 



19 Canajoharie, the middle castle in 1730, was on Prospect hill 

 in Fort Plain and on the east side of Otsquago creek. There are 

 many recent graves and relics. This was described in the survey 

 of 1723 as " the Cassel of Ta-re-gi-o-rus." There were one or two 

 earlier Canajoharies. 



20 There are two sites in Happy hollow on Brown's farm two 

 miles west of Canajoharie and on the south side of the river. They 

 have small cemeteries, one old and one recent, with corresponding 

 burial. Pottery with human figures occurs here as in several other 

 places. 



21 A fishing hamlet on the south side a quarter of a mile above 

 Canajoharie. Also a large village and cemetery on, the hillside 

 just west of Canajoharie, with recent articles. 



22 A recent cemetery on the Van Alstine farm just east of the 

 east corporation line of Canajoharie. 



23 A small village at Sprakers on a hill south of the river. 

 Gen. Clark thought this Theonondiogo, the western castle of 1642. 

 This would correspond with the writer's estimate for 1634. 



24 A small village two miles southeast of Canajoharie. 



25 A recent village at Lasher's two miles east of Sprakers. 



26 A village site and cemetery at or near Auriesville where 

 Gen. J. S. Clark locates the most easterly town of 1642, on the 

 south side of the river and half a mile south of Auriesville. " The 

 site is a quarter of a mile from the river on the farm of Victor A. 

 Putnam 130 or 150 feet above the river." Here a shrine is a 

 memorial of the death of Father Jogues. Recent relics are found. 

 There was a recent village of a temporary character on the hill 

 west of Auriesville. 



