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Putnam county. As in all Algonquin regions the sites here are 

 small and scattered, and though frequent on streams have attracted 

 little attention. L. W. Calver said in Popular science news of 

 November 1896, "The Indian village sites of the highlands are 

 well known to those interested and have been explored time and 

 again for such reUcs as occasionally come to light. The finds con- 

 sist principally of arrow and spear points of flint or other hard stone 

 and are of almost every known shape." All he mentioned were near 

 Cold Spring, and had previously been reported by Dr James S. 

 Nelson. The Canopus and Mahopac Indians lived in this county. 



1 A recent site is the Indian field two miles south of Cold Spring, 

 directly, opposite West Point. 



2 A camp a mile north of this where a copper knife was found. 



3 A camp on the outskirts of Cold Spring. Curious articles have 

 been found near that place. 



^ Queens county. Shell heaps are frequent throughout Long 

 Island, the natives not only feasting on shell-fish in the summer but 

 drying large quantities of oysters and clams for winter use. In 

 their own tongue the island was the land of shells. In another form 

 it was the place of shell beads. In many places shell heaps con- 

 tinuously line the shores of the bays, and often reveal more than the 

 village sites. The latter are few in comparison. Within well de- 

 fined territories the people were in constant motion. 



1 II skeletons were found in the Linnaean garden in Flushing 

 in 1841. All the heads were to the east. — Furman 



2 A cemetery was opened on Thomas P. Duryea's farm, a mile 

 from Flushing in 1880. Stone relics were found in this. The 

 Matinecocks had large settlements at Flushing, Glen Cove and Cow 

 Harbor. There were other villages of this tribe in Suffolk county. — 

 Thompson, p. 6y. All will not be numbered. 



3 There were many relics and shell banks about Little Neck. 

 Douglass point was the most interesting spot among these. — Mande- 

 ville, p. 93 



4 The Jameco Indians had a village on a creek a mile south of 

 the present village of Jamaica. — Thompson, p. 382 



