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hearty aid of conscientious collectors, and perhaps no part of New 

 York has been given more thorough and systematic study, though 

 a vast amount yet remains to be done. Its navigable rivers and 

 abundant fishing places drew many here at an early day, while 

 others found safety in its hills. 



1 Camps with the usual early relics in Lysander, lot 42, on the 

 west side of the Oswego river at Phoenix. There was also a 

 fishing village there in 1654 at which Father Le Moyne stopped. 



2 Two camps or more on the land of D. Porter and A. Haikes, 

 lot 71, on the west bank of the Seneca river. Early relics and a 

 little pottery. At this rift the first EngHsh military road crossed 

 the river. 



3 A hamlet on a bold hill on A. Start's farm, lot 70 Lysander. 

 Arrowheads and pottery. 



4 Two hamlets on and by the Adams farm on the west side of 

 the Seneca river and another north of the mouth of the state ditch, 

 lot 96. Flint arrowheads and rude stone implements and but little 

 pottery. 



5 A village on the Hickey farm, lot 75 with^ fine stone inplements 

 but no pottery. It is a little back of the river. Just northeast of 

 this on sandy land are fireplaces with a few arrowheads, drills and 

 coarse pottery. A small hamlet lies farther west by the Voorhees 

 brook on lot 74, and near this a cache of flints was found. 



6 The above camp on sandy land is on lot 75, formerly U. M. 

 Kelly's land. Just below it is a stone eelweir with three bays of 

 unequal length reaching up the river as it tended toward the north 

 shore. It was built of field stone and was about 1200 feet long. 

 It reaches the surface now only in very low water. Part of another 

 is below the Jack's reef bridge, and others are found elsewhere, 

 as the Onondagas built many within historic times. 



7 Two hamlets of considerable size on J. Adsit's land, lot y6 

 close to the river and on both sides of a brook. They seem dis- 

 tinct and have the usual relics but no pottery. There are several 

 camps between this and the last. 



8 Apparently a stockade town on the hilltop back of what was 

 Charles Emerick's house and high above the river road on lot 78 



