﻿ABORIGINAL 
  CHIPPED 
  STONE 
  IMPLEiMENTS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  II 
  

  

  be 
  but 
  a 
  few 
  rods, 
  but 
  often 
  it 
  was 
  many 
  miles. 
  They 
  wished 
  not 
  

   only 
  strong 
  positions, 
  but 
  situations 
  where 
  canoes 
  could 
  not 
  reach 
  

   them. 
  This 
  was 
  always 
  the 
  case 
  in 
  warlike 
  times, 
  and 
  the 
  position 
  

   of 
  the 
  town 
  will 
  often 
  show 
  confidence 
  or 
  fear. 
  Their 
  permanent 
  

   homes 
  also 
  depended 
  to 
  some 
  extent 
  upon 
  the 
  soil, 
  being 
  a 
  corn 
  

   raising 
  people; 
  and 
  in 
  fact 
  nearly 
  all 
  camps 
  of 
  others 
  as 
  well 
  were 
  

   placed 
  on 
  a 
  light, 
  and 
  not 
  a 
  heavy 
  soil. 
  Very 
  rarely 
  indeed 
  did 
  other 
  

   considerations 
  outweigh 
  this. 
  Iroquois 
  villages 
  are 
  thus 
  not 
  to 
  be 
  

   expected 
  in 
  regions 
  characterized 
  by 
  primitive 
  rocks; 
  a 
  glance 
  at 
  a 
  

   map 
  showing 
  the 
  indian 
  sites 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  and 
  Canada, 
  will 
  make 
  

   apparent 
  how 
  much 
  their 
  location 
  was 
  affected 
  by 
  geological 
  con- 
  

   ditions. 
  

  

  The 
  Algonquin 
  tribes 
  built 
  palisaded 
  forts 
  in 
  the 
  eastern 
  part 
  of 
  

   New 
  York, 
  somewhat 
  like 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  and 
  their 
  long 
  

   houses 
  are 
  reported 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  even 
  longer 
  than 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  latter. 
  

   Earthworks 
  here, 
  however, 
  were 
  nearly 
  all 
  defenses 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquoian 
  

   family, 
  and 
  yield 
  abundant 
  earthenware. 
  Some 
  of 
  these 
  are 
  quite 
  

   recent, 
  and 
  in 
  these 
  are 
  observed 
  suggestions 
  of 
  a 
  knowledge 
  of 
  

   European 
  articles, 
  soon 
  followed 
  by 
  the 
  articles 
  themselves. 
  These 
  

   later 
  sites, 
  usually 
  simple 
  stockades, 
  have 
  often 
  done 
  a 
  work 
  similar 
  

   to 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Rosetta 
  stone, 
  but 
  in 
  another 
  way. 
  Knowing 
  their 
  

   age, 
  and 
  finding 
  aboriginal 
  relics 
  on 
  them 
  of 
  peculiar 
  kinds, 
  we 
  are 
  

   able 
  to 
  give 
  the 
  approximate 
  age 
  of 
  similar 
  articles 
  elsewhere. 
  In 
  

   this 
  will 
  be 
  found 
  one 
  great 
  advantage 
  of 
  studying 
  some 
  New 
  York 
  

   sites, 
  an 
  advantage 
  not 
  confined 
  in 
  its 
  results 
  to 
  our 
  own 
  borders. 
  

  

  One 
  important 
  question 
  relates 
  to 
  the 
  Eskimo. 
  It 
  will 
  appear 
  

   that 
  some 
  articles 
  now 
  used 
  only 
  by 
  them 
  are 
  frequent 
  in 
  the 
  northern 
  

   part 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  along 
  with 
  others 
  which 
  suggest 
  their 
  occasional 
  

   presence. 
  It 
  is 
  well 
  known, 
  also, 
  that 
  they 
  once 
  lived 
  much 
  farther 
  

   south 
  than 
  now, 
  and 
  it 
  may 
  yet 
  appear 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  sometimes 
  

   visitors 
  here. 
  Rash 
  conclusions 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  avoided, 
  but 
  so 
  much 
  is 
  

   known 
  as 
  to 
  call 
  for 
  further 
  light. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  deplored 
  that 
  such 
  quantities 
  of 
  our 
  finest 
  relics 
  are 
  

   forever 
  lost 
  to 
  the 
  state, 
  but 
  this 
  is 
  a 
  lament 
  in 
  which 
  every 
  part 
  of 
  our 
  

   land 
  shares. 
  Enough 
  remains 
  to 
  give 
  us 
  some 
  idea 
  of 
  the 
  arts 
  — 
  - 
  

   perhaps 
  of 
  the 
  habits 
  and 
  history 
  — 
  of 
  our 
  predecessors. 
  Although 
  so 
  

  

  