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Road where it makes a turn, (on the "Vandeventer" Farm). 

 This was probably identical with that described by Mr. 

 Squier, in Ab. Mon. N. Y., page 56, as being on the "Van- 

 dewater Farm". 



LEWISTON, NIAGARA COUNTY. 



No. 97. Defensive earth-works existed on the site known as 

 "Kienuka", on the Williams Farm, in the northeastern cor- 

 ner of the Tuscarora Reservation. 



Described by Mr. Turner, in his "History of the Hol- 

 land Purchase", and by H. R. Schoolcraft. 



All traces of earth -work are obliterated. 



LOCKPORT. 



No. 98. An earth work was said to exist at the head of the 

 "Gulf" about a mile west of Lockport, on the "Sharp" 

 farm. It is described by Mr. Turner in his "History of the 

 Holland Purchase", P. 29. Careful search for any traces of 

 it has failed to locate it. A natural embankment, a terrace 

 of a small brook flowing into the "Gulf" may be the em- 

 bankment described. No Indian remains of any kind are 

 found near it, and no one in the vicinity knows anything of 

 it, excepting through Turner's description. See Reynolds, 

 Bureau of Ethnology, 1890-91, P. 512. 



Quarries and Factories. 



There were aboriginal quarries at a few points along the 

 Niagara Frontier. One certainly existed at the head of the 

 Niagara River at Fort Erie, and others are reported at Williams- 

 ville and on Main Street, Buffalo, at the City Line. Nothing 

 remains at any of these points except the debris incident to the 

 work of quarrying. 



The one thing sought in the quarries was chert. To the 

 Indians of this region this stone was a necessity. Of it they 

 made their knife and hoe-blades ; with it they armed their arrows 

 and javelins. 



