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occupancy. The great serpent ate all the people. It seems the fort 

 usually referred to Naples at the head of the lake. 



2 The " Old fort " in Shearman's, hollow was a prehistoric earth- 

 work near the schoolhouse on lot 48, Jerusalem. — Cleaveland, p. 449- 

 50. It was near Friend on the north line of the town and was a 

 rectangle of two acres. Pottery occurs there and a large stone 

 mortar was found. Dr S. H. Wright however reports it as a stock- 

 ade with two trenches and many openings. There was a cemetery 

 near. 



3 A valley southeast of Italyhill was much frequented and three 

 artificially grooved boulders were found on Mr Paddock's farm. 

 This was a mile southeast of that village. 



4 An Indian village and orchard were a few rods south of Italy 

 Hollow. Another village and orchard were a mile north of the 

 Big Elm in the same valley. 



5 Grooved boulders occur in Guyanoga valley about one and one 

 half miles from Branchport. A cemetery is near these on D. W. 

 Dickinson's land. 



6 There are graves on the Ellsworth farm half a mile northeast 

 of Branchport. 



7 A burial mound and cemetery with mostly modern relics near, 

 have been described on the west shore of Lake Keuka. Several 

 circular structures of sandstone were on the east side of the outlet 

 near the lake. — Cleaveland, p. 715 



8 Graves on lot 43, Milo, on the Thayer place near the lake are 

 mentioned in this. Early and recent relics. Probably the same as 

 an old work on lot 34, which is three and three fourths miles south 

 of Penn Yan and less than a mile east of the lake. It occupied about 

 six acres and had one trench. There was a large cemetery toward 

 the lake. 



9 Bones and mica were found in a mound on the west side of 

 Blufif Point about two miles from its southern end. 



10 Dr S. H. Wright fully described and illustrated some curious 

 remains on lots 5 and 6, Blufif Point, eight miles south of Penn Yan. 

 He called it a system of graded ways but so unlike any New York 



