﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  DIRECTOR 
  10,12 
  49 
  

  

  active 
  energy; 
  ambitious, 
  resourceful, 
  with 
  an 
  eye 
  to 
  the 
  main 
  

   chance 
  — 
  in 
  short, 
  in 
  industrial 
  affairs 
  what 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  was 
  in 
  

   war. 
  They 
  were 
  inventive, 
  with 
  a 
  decided 
  instinct 
  for 
  art, 
  

   shown 
  in 
  the 
  decorative 
  effects 
  produced 
  in 
  the 
  manufacture 
  of 
  

   their 
  weapons 
  and 
  utensils. 
  In 
  their 
  manipulation 
  of 
  stone, 
  they 
  

   were 
  not 
  satisfied 
  with 
  mere 
  utility. 
  They 
  made 
  an 
  arrow 
  or 
  

   spear 
  head 
  an 
  object 
  of 
  beauty 
  to 
  the 
  eye, 
  and 
  manifested 
  an 
  

   accurate 
  taste 
  in 
  the 
  smoothness 
  and 
  symmetry 
  of 
  their 
  pestles 
  

   when 
  any 
  roughly-dressed 
  stone 
  would 
  have 
  served 
  as 
  well 
  in 
  

   a 
  practical 
  way. 
  They 
  were 
  makers 
  of 
  pottery, 
  small 
  and 
  large 
  

   vessels 
  of 
  mingled 
  clay 
  and 
  finely 
  pounded 
  stone, 
  fire-baked 
  and 
  

   elaborately 
  decorated, 
  though 
  in 
  common 
  with 
  those 
  preceding 
  

   and 
  following 
  them, 
  they 
  were 
  wholly 
  ignorant 
  of 
  metallurgy. 
  

  

  Beginning 
  at 
  the 
  oft-occupied 
  settlement 
  on 
  the 
  north 
  bank 
  

   of 
  the 
  Hudson 
  river 
  at 
  the 
  Big 
  bend, 
  we 
  will 
  endeavor 
  to 
  trace 
  

   the 
  lines 
  of 
  their 
  residence 
  to 
  the 
  northward 
  to 
  Glen 
  lake, 
  thence 
  

   eastward 
  into 
  Washington 
  county. 
  Here 
  at 
  the 
  rifts 
  of 
  the 
  

   Hudson 
  are 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  lower 
  layers 
  of 
  soil, 
  quantities 
  of 
  their 
  

   pottery, 
  celts, 
  knives 
  etc., 
  while 
  all 
  to 
  the 
  north 
  and 
  northwest 
  

   along 
  Clendon 
  brook 
  and 
  Meadow 
  run, 
  are 
  yearly 
  ploughed 
  up 
  

   their 
  cylindrical 
  pestles 
  with 
  an 
  occasional 
  mortar. 
  Axes, 
  

   knives, 
  arrowheads 
  and 
  pottery 
  are 
  found 
  in 
  remarkable 
  quan- 
  

   tities. 
  At 
  the 
  southern 
  end 
  of 
  Glen 
  lake, 
  on 
  the 
  plateau 
  where 
  

   the 
  Glen 
  Lake 
  hotel 
  now 
  stands, 
  was 
  a 
  considerable 
  village 
  

   stretching 
  thence 
  to 
  the 
  elevated 
  lands 
  on 
  the 
  opposite 
  bank 
  of 
  

   Meadow 
  run, 
  where 
  that 
  stream 
  enters 
  the 
  lake. 
  Following 
  the 
  

   western 
  shore 
  of 
  the 
  lake 
  in 
  our 
  survey, 
  we 
  find 
  few 
  traces 
  till 
  

   we 
  reach 
  the 
  outlet 
  at 
  Butternut 
  flats. 
  Here, 
  on 
  both 
  banks 
  oi 
  

   the 
  creek, 
  which 
  at 
  this 
  point 
  are 
  much 
  elevated, 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  

   been 
  an 
  established 
  town, 
  with 
  offshoots 
  in 
  various 
  directions, 
  

   first 
  to 
  the 
  westward 
  on 
  the 
  small 
  brook 
  near 
  the 
  Halfway 
  house 
  

   on 
  the 
  highway 
  to 
  Lake 
  George. 
  Then 
  another 
  northwestward, 
  

   tucked 
  for 
  comfort 
  up 
  under 
  the 
  protection 
  of 
  French 
  mountain, 
  

   where 
  a 
  cold 
  stream 
  comes 
  down 
  from 
  between 
  the 
  two 
  spurs. 
  

   Here 
  the 
  w 
  r 
  riter 
  picked 
  up, 
  among 
  various 
  other 
  objects, 
  an 
  

   arrowhead 
  of 
  pure 
  transparent 
  quartz 
  crystal. 
  These 
  sites 
  are 
  

   identified 
  by 
  the 
  fragments 
  of 
  early 
  pottery 
  which 
  they 
  yield. 
  

   From 
  Glen 
  lake 
  eastward 
  the 
  line 
  of 
  these 
  old 
  habitations 
  follows 
  

   the 
  stream 
  at 
  intervals 
  through 
  to 
  the 
  Washington 
  county 
  line. 
  

   Tradition 
  refers 
  to 
  a 
  stone-fortified 
  village 
  at 
  Sanford's 
  bridge, 
  

   near 
  Halfway 
  brook, 
  which, 
  if 
  tradition 
  is 
  correct, 
  w^as 
  evidently 
  

  

  