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Chaamonaque or Theoga," meaning the Delawares living at Tioga. 

 It was written Shamunk in 1767, but usually Chemung. The river 

 and an Indian village bore this name, which meant big horn. The 

 village was burned in 1779. Zeisberger has Wschummo for horn, 

 and the locative may be added. Spafford said : " Chemung is said 

 to mean 6^'^ horn, or great horn, in the dialect of the Indian tribes 

 that anciently possessed this country. And that a very large horn 

 was found in the Tioga or Chemung river is well ascertained." 

 Ihis was a Delaware name, and the river has another of similar 

 meaning. In Schoolcraft's larger work is a communication from 

 Thomas Maxwell, who gave the usual definition and said that the 

 name came from a large horn or tusk found in the river. Of course 

 this must have been in colonial times to have originated the 

 Delaware name. The early settlers found a similar horn in the 

 stream in 1799. It was sent to England, and an eminent scientist 

 called it the tusk of an elephant or some similar animal. In 1855 

 Mr Maxwell added : 



One of much the same character was found on an island in the 

 river below Elmira, a few weeks since, and it is now here. I have 

 recently examined it. It is about 4 feet in length, of the crescent 

 form, perhaps 3 to 4 inches in diameter. Capt. Eastman saw it 

 yesterday and with others who have seen it pronounce it to be ivory, 

 and a tusk of some large animal, probably now extinct. This is the 

 third horn or tusk which has been found in the Chemung so that 

 the name is likely to be perpetual. 



ORANGE COUNTY 



1899. Parts of a skeleton were exhumed near the village of 

 Arden on lands of Mr E. H. Harriman. Efforts made to secure all 

 the bones resulted in uncovering only a few portions of the scapula 

 or pelvis, leg, ribs and two teeth. The soil was peat or vegetable 

 mold. 



CATTARAUGUS COUNTY 



1906. Parts of a skeleton represented by 40 to 50 bones mostly 

 vertebrae and foot bones were found in the banks of the State ditch 

 along the Conewango creek close on the boundary between Cattar- 

 augus and Chautauqua counties. The remains lay above a shelf of 

 hard clay. Discovered and reported by C. N. Hoard and W. H. 

 Hoard, Conewango valley, September 23, 1906. 



WESTCHESTER COUNTY 



1906. A tooth and some small fragments of bone were found 

 on the property of W. H. Fish, Hartsdale. 



Fossil plants. As opportunity has afforded, Mr David White 

 has continued his investigations of the Devonic plants. He has given 



