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THE SENECA NATION 



Mr. Fred Hamlin of East Bloomfield has a fine collection, 

 many articles of which have been taken from this site. They 

 are mainly of European origin, and include the usual glass and 

 shell beads, iron axes and knives, and shell ornaments. 



The Marsh Site. 



(Gandougarae.) 



This is in East Bloomfield township on the farms of George 

 and Jesse Marsh, Ira DeLong and David Thompson, a quarter 

 of a mile north of the junction of the road from Holcomb to 

 Canandaigua with the road from Victor. It lies a quarter of a 

 mile east of Mud Creek, on the eastern bank of a small stream, 

 a tributary of Mud Creek. 



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Site of Gandougarae from the west. — Photograph by F. Houghton. 



The soil is heavy red clay loam. At the time of my visits 

 most of the surface was under cultivation, and much of it was 

 in wheat and hay which concealed all evidence of occupancy 

 over most of the site. Large refuse heaps cumber the soil and 



