18 NEW-YORK STATE COLLECTION. 



14. Clay pipe-stems, found in the vicinity of Avon. 



15. Clay pipe-stems, found in Mondon, Monroe county, near the site of 



the village known in the seventeenth century to the French as 

 " Dyen-de-haak-doh," or the Bend ; having been situated in an 

 arm of the Hone-yah-yah (called by the whites Honeoye), or 

 the place where the finger was left. The tradition is, that an 

 indian, while gathering strawberries on its banks, was bitten by 

 a copperhead on one of his fingers ; and that to prevent a spread 

 of the venom, he severed it from his hand with a hatchet. 



16. Fragments of ancient fottery, picked up at various points in the 



valley of the Genesee. 



17. Ancient pottery found by Mr. Hosmer, together with a paint stone, 



in a mound of the Yemassees, near the ocean beach at San 

 Pablo, on St. John's river, Florida. 



18. Steel hatchet, found on the Wilber farm (Avon), in an old grave. 



19. Bones, etc. taken from an indian grave near Fort Niagara. 



20. Sword-belt plate, found near Cannewangus landing, by a workman 



on the Canal, many feet below the surface ; together with human 

 bones, and a fragment of a military coat that crumbled on 

 exposure to the air. It is perforated by a bullet. It bears the 

 inscription, " 104, New-Brunswick Regiment," surmounted by 

 the English crown. Some luckless British soldier, taken in some 

 distant expedition of the conquering Iroquois, may have been 

 the victim of Indian warfare. 



21. Stone implements, found on the farm of William Wadsworth near 



Fowlerville bridge, York, Liviagston county. 



22. Paint stone referred to in No. 17. The bottom of the stone, when 



discovered, was red with vermilion or some of the coloring 

 matters. 



23. Leaden cross, of Maltese shape, referring to missions of the Jesuits; 



and a bone rifle charger, found in a field that is known in song 

 as " The Place of Bones." This field lies at the foot of a wooded 

 ridge, in view of the village of Avon, and is supposed by some 

 to have been the scene of confiict between Denonville and the 

 Senecas. 



24. French axes, found at an old Jesuit station on the Mendon road. 



25. French axes, found on the site of a village near the dividing line 



between Avon and Lima, supposed to have been a famous town 

 known to the Jesuits in the seventeenth century as Dyiu-don-sot, 

 or Village at the spring. 



