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bank of Oak Orchard creek two miles from the lake. No other 

 works were known. 



2 There was a circular work one and one half miles wxst of 

 Shelby Center, of which Turner gives an account without mention- 

 ing the double wall or more than one gateway. Squier quotes 

 his account which has many features of interest. F. H. Gushing 

 described it in the Smithsonian report for 1874, with its -double 

 walls, gateways and boulders. Some have ascribed to it a great 

 antiquity. It is simply a prehistoric Iroquois fort with the usual 

 relics, but it includes some Ohio shells. Dr Snyder furnished a 

 plan, given in fig. 6^], divided into quadrants by fences, two sections 

 being under cultivation. In one of these the inner wall curved to 

 avoid two large limestone boulders. The passages through the 

 outer and inner walls are not quite opposite. 



3 Half a mile west of this was once 9. large cemetery. Mr Squier 

 says "it is • not known that many ancient remains occur in this 

 county," and these are all reported. Schoolcraft speaks however 

 of an old fort in a swamp at Barnegat now Shelby Center which is 

 noted above. 



Oswego county. As a rule few important works or sites are 

 found near Lake Ontario, as there was little security there except 

 where there were rocky banks as on the Genesee river. Temporary 

 fishing villages were more frequent and some should yet be found 

 where streams of some size enter the lake, though the traces are 

 rare. 



1 Otianhatague, or Canohage, was at the mouth of Salmon 

 river, and there was a fishing village there in 1654 and the following 

 year. It does not seem to have been of long continuance as no 

 one was there in 1656. Few relics are found. 



2 In Crisfield Johnson's History of Oswego county, p. 60 is an ac- 

 count of a mound near Trout brook in the north part of Albion, 

 which rose from the midst of level land. It was probably a natural 

 elevation but many relics are reported close beside it. On the top 

 of a hill near by was a circular bank inclosing about two acres. It 

 had a ditch. 



