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It is rather surprising that these seem to have no very early date 

 on Long Island. Our best authority on that region, W. W. Tooker 

 of Sag Harbor, writes : " I have seen discoid and other shell beads 

 from graves here. The graves were about the year 1662 in one 

 place, and about 1700 in another. I have never seen any from 

 ancient graves. The graves here in which I discovered two vessels 

 of clay, contained no beads or ornaments of any kind." Their ab- 

 sence is but negative testimony, but on the whole they seem to 

 have had no great antiquity in New York. Quite a number from 

 Pompey appear on the same plate with the largest gorget. These 

 are not separately numbered; and all are recent, and reduced in 

 size in fig. 206 and 221. 



Fig. 197 on the same plate, is of a string of these, about 80 in 

 number, which were found near the canal lock^ i^ miles north of 

 .Cayuga, in the town of Aurelius. They seem of early date, being 

 of irregular thickness and form, and have some ridges on the cir- 

 cumference. They are much reduced in this figure. All the others 

 on this plate are from Pompey, and all are in the Bigelow collection. 

 Apparently this string contains the oldest yet found, unless a small 

 one with the stone tubes in the Palatine Bridge grave should prove 

 earlier. All the rest of seashell to be noted are recent, and of 

 actual size. 



Fig. 256 and 257 represent two of very large size, found at 

 Cayuga, along with others very small. Fig. 27 is from Indian hill, 

 Pompey, and is very neatly made. Fig. 21 is an example out of 

 many small ones, with quite large perforations, from Union Springs. 

 They are quite frequent in graves east of Cayuga lake. Out of 

 one grave were taken 124 small ones, and out of another 72 with 

 large perforations. U n i o s furnished the material for the first 

 of these two lots, and they are represented in fig. 21. Some Venice 

 beads are thin as paper. One was found north of Fort Plain, ex- 

 actly like fig. 2y, and the form is frequent in the Mohawk valley. 

 Many large and small occur at a site south of Pompey Center, oc- 

 cupied about 1640. They are abundant on recent Seneca sites, and 

 small ones have been found at the early fort west of Cazenovia. A 

 fine, large disk bead of U n i o shell, represented in fig. 14, was 



