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from them are gleaned annually many glass beads and other 

 articles. 



There seems to be no doubt that this village was Gandou- 

 ragae, the Mission station of St. Michel. It was occupied by 

 captives from the Neuter country, the country of the Onnon- 

 tiogas, and from the Huron village of Scannonenrat, all of 

 whom were colonized here by their Seneca conquerors. 



Two cemeteries of this village have been found. One on 

 the farm of Ira DeLong was explored in 1911 for the Buffalo 

 Society of Natural Sciences by the writer. The second was 

 found in 1911 by George Marsh on his farm, and was excavated 

 by Heman Coates of Clifton Springs, Fred Hamlin of East 

 Bloomfield and William L. Bryant and the writer for this 

 Society. 



The De Long burial place is on a lobate knoll west of the 

 village, from which it is separated by a deep dry gully. The 

 soil is heavy, tenacious red clay. Graves were known to be 

 here fifty years ago when the field was first plowed, and were 

 then marked by depressions. Some graves have been opened 

 by Mr. Hamlin and Mr. Coates, and are noted on the list below. 



Bones representing eleven bodies were taken in 1911 from 

 the knoll on Ira DeLong's farm. They were located by means 

 of the posthole digger, with which test holes were sunk over the 

 whole area at a distance of a yard apart. The clay was so hard 

 that the rod was valueless and the digger was broken three 

 times. 



Nearly every grave was limited by the original grave 

 walls, which still showed clearly cut in the tenacious clay. 

 Nearly every one still showed a bark lining. Strips of bark had 

 been laid on the bottom and turned up to cover at least one 

 wall of the grave. 



Almost every skeleton was laid out in a flexed position, 

 which however differed from the usual flexed position in that 

 the body lay on the back instead of the side, with the legs 

 drawn up sidewise. 



Two skeletons were scattered, showing burial of bones 

 only. Two graves contained the bodies of two persons each. 

 The burials differed radically from those at the Boughton Hill 

 site, the Bunce cemetery and the Beal site, although distant but 

 three miles. 



