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c HA p, j^ ^j^ig ]-)a^y^ and not' more than ten yards from the 



• . ' beach, there was a kind of monument eredled probably to 



Auguft. the memory of fome diftinguifhed chief. This edifice 

 Saturday i8. ^^^ compofcd of four pofts, cach about twenty i'eet long, 

 iluck in the ground fix feet diftant from each other, 

 and in a quadrangular form. About twelve or fifteen 

 feet from the ground there was a rough boarded floor, and 

 two of the fides were boarded four feet higher up, the 

 other fides were left open. In the middle of this floor an 

 Indian cheft was depofited, which moft likely contained 

 the remains of fome perfon of confequence; and on that 

 fide of the edifice to the Weftward, and which pointed up 

 the Sound, there was painted the refemblance of a human 

 face. This wooden edifice, from its tottering condition, 

 had certainly been ereded a confiderable length of time; 

 and as it began to decay, I could perceive that the Indians 

 had fixed fupporters to the original uprights, and the 

 painting appeared to have been frequently touched over. 

 As none of the inhabitants were near us, I was defiroils 

 .to know what the cheft contained; but on one of the 

 boat's crew attempting to get up in order to examine it, 

 the whole fabric had like to have given way, on which I 

 ordered him to defift, as I was not willing to deftroy a 

 building that probably was looked upon by the Indians 

 as facred, and which they apparently took very great pains 

 to prefer ve. 



Some of the inhabitants had lately vifited this bay, 

 as we faw a place where a fire had lately been made, and 

 which appeared not to have been long put out. From 

 this place Jofeph Woodcock took a view of the land as 



given 



