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five feet. The sites of habitations are marked by remains of pot- 

 tery, pipes and other evidences." — Turner. Hoi. p. 26. Schoolcraft 

 gives a plan and description but it may refer to a mere rocky ledge 

 with a village site. Gen. Lincoln gave an account of the two 

 Tuscarora villages at that place in 1793. Land had been cleared 

 and they found " a wall around it, the banks of which were visible 

 at this time." Stone axes were obtained. — Mass. hist. 5:127. This 

 may have been the work examined by Mr Reynolds on the north 

 line of the reservation. Its area was one and one half acres and 

 there was no wall on the north. A recent monumental stone heap 

 was near it. — U. S. bur. of cth. p. 512 



3 A quarter of a mile west of this fort were 118 pits. — U. S. bur. 

 of eth. p. 513 



4 Three ossuaries half a mile west of the fort, with 100 skeletons 

 and three copper rings in one. This was 9 feet in diameter. — U. S. 

 bur. of eth. p. 513 



5 Near Tonawanda creek and two miles east of Hoffman's sta- 

 tion was a camp site. 



6 Several skeletons were exhumed at the Lewiston end of the 

 electric road in April 1895. Pipes and arrowheads were found. 

 Mr Larkin mentioned two large burial mounds in this town. 



7 There are traces of Lidian graves on Goat island. — French, 



p. 450 



8 A mound in the town of Wilson contained human bones, and 

 was 10 or 12 feet high and 100 feet around. It was three quarters 

 of a mile from the lake. — Macauley, 2:113 



9 A mound, fort and cemetery were on a ridge in Cambria, eight 

 miles east of the reservation. Turner saw the mound opened in 

 1823. Six acres were occupied, with a wall in front onthe circular 

 verge of the mountain. In the center was an ossuary four or 

 five feet deep " filled with human bones, over which were slabs 

 of sandstone. Hundreds of both sexes and all ages seem to have 

 been thrown in promiscuously. Numerous barbs or arrow points 

 were found among the bones and in the vicinity. . . Rude frag- 

 ments of pottery, pieces of copper and iron instruments of rude work- 

 manship have been plowed up within the area; also charred wood, 



