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3 In his History of Cortland, Mr Goodwin said there was a small 

 village at the mouth of Taghkanic creek which escaped the atten- 

 tion of Sullivan's men and also one six miles southwest near Water- 

 burg. 



4 A fort and cemetery were reported by Daniel Trowbridge in 

 Ulysses half a mile from Waterburg. There was a bank and three 

 rows of palisades. The relics were early Iroquoian — Smithsonian 

 report, 1864. This was half a mile west of Waterburg the bank 

 being on the north side of the road. The cemetery was on the 

 south side. A skeleton was dug up a mile east of Waterburg. — 

 Child. Directory, 1868-69. It is in the west part of Tompkins 

 county half a mile east of the county line and a mile northeast of 

 Perry City on the farms of Messrs Hart and Sherwood. The road 

 passes through it. — Amer. ant. 1897. Fig. 81 is F. E. Her- 

 rick's plan in that paper. It is singular in its combination of a 

 wall and lines of palisades and seems to be about 500 by 350 feet. 



5 A. F. Barrott reported another fort on a bluff on Parker 

 Wixom's land, with a wall crossing the bluff east and west. This 

 was nearly three miles southeast of the last. 



6 Another fort was two miles south of no. 4, east of the creek 

 and opposite Caleb Wixom's house. Mr Barrott reported this as 

 circular but with a prolongation of the wall 15 rods southerly from 

 the south gate. It is on a bluff. Mr Herrick described it as an 

 immense early village. Besides no. 4, Mr Trowbridge spoke of 

 three other forts within three miles, which he did not describe. One 

 is unnoticed here. Fig. 86 is from a sketch by Mr Barrott. 



7 Coreorgonel was a small village burned in 1779, west of Cayuga 

 inlet on high ground and two miles south of Ithaca. — Sullivan, p. 

 yy. There are recent burial places at Coreorgonel and also north 

 of Buttermilk falls and on the bluff near Dr Parker's, East hill. — 

 Dudley. " Where Ithaca now stands were found cleared fields 

 which had previously been cultivated by the Indians." — French, p. 

 655. The Tedarighroones were adopted by the Cayugas in 1753 

 and settled at the head of Cayuga lake which thence had the name 

 of Totieronno. It has been thought that Poney Hollow was a 

 contraction from the Saponies who may have lived there. 



