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deep shell beds, the larger with few relics, and the smaller with 

 many. There was a village on the Bronx river, a quarter of a mile 

 south of Bronxville station, (28) which had fine relics, including 

 pottery. A large shell bed was west of and opposite the south end 

 of Hunter island, (29) and had many interesting relics. A series of 

 shell beds, forming a large village site, was north of this, and op- 

 posite the north end of Hunter island. A great variety of reUcs. A 

 large shell bed (31) is on the north shore of Delancey's neck, Mamar- 

 oneck. Another similar bed is northeast and opposite, on Rye 

 neck, in Rye. A village (33) was between Beck's Rye beach and 

 Oakland beach. Pottery and arrowheads. Another camp on the 

 neck just south of Parsonage point, with similar relics. On these 

 sites pottery is frequent, as well as hammer stones and net sinkers. 

 Polished stone is not common, and many articles are entirely lack- 

 ing. Pipes are very rare, but fine articles were not likely to be lost 

 in shell beds or heaps. The use of shells in graves has features of 

 interest. 



Wyoming county, i On the northwest side of the Genesee a 

 mile or two above the falls was a work on a small but high hill first 

 described in 1808. The small hill south of Portage mentioned by 

 Squier is the same. — Sqiiier, p. 63. Mr Reynolds described it as a 

 circular work four and one half miles south of Portage. A mound 

 was on the flats 25 rods north of this. J. S. Minard of Fillmore 

 furnished the writer with plans of this, one of which is given in fig. 

 83. The work is oblong, inclosing one and three fourths acres, 

 and is on lot 107 of the Cottringer purchase, town of Genesee Falls. 

 A plan appears in a report of the U. S. bureau of ethnology, 1890-91. 



2 Gadao was in Castile near the outlet of Silver lake. — Morgan, 

 p. 435. It was commonly called Gardeau. 



Yates county, i A noted work was on Bare hill, lot 70, Middle- 

 sex. It was about 1000 feet above the east shore of Canandaigua 

 lake. It has never been figured and but slightly described. The 

 fallen stones of the wall have been scattered, but the ditch remains 

 inclosing one acre. The fort is a little north of Vine Valley. It is 

 the early fort of Seneca traditions but there are few indications of 



