426 Archeology in Vermont. [June, 
New England. Vermont is, to a certain extent, divided by the 
Green mountains into two archeological regions, though perhaps 
it is not best to make this distinction too prominent. So far as 
the more recent specimens are concerned, we should expect this 
to be the case, for, while the early history of Vermont is not very 
full in its account of the Indians whom the white men found, we 
are told a few facts respecting their habits, and among other 
things that those living on the western side of the Green mount- 
ains rarely crossed them. For instance, Hall, in his “ History of 
Eastern Vermont,” page 585, says: “ The Iroquois seldom crossed 
the mountains, and have left few marks of their presence in the 
eastern part of the State.” He goes on to tell us that, “the 
country in the neighborhood of Lunenburg and Newbury (in 
Northeastern Vermont), and on the side of the river opposite to 
the latter place, was called by the Indians “ Coos,” which word in 
the Abenaqui language is said to signify “the Pines.” At this 
point and at other localities on the Upper Connecticut, formerly 
resided a branch of the Abenaqui tribe. These Indians were 
called Coosucks, and being defeated in battle by the white set- 
tlers in 1725, they went back to Canada whence they had come, 
and in 1760 a few returned to Coos. As to the extent of this 
settlement there seems to be no definite information. In a small 
work published in 1841 by Rev. Grant Powers, entitled “ Histori- 
cal Sketches of Coos County,” on pages 39-40 we find the fol- 
lowing: “On the high ground east of the mouth of Cow Meadow 
brook, and south of the three large projecting rocks, were found 
many indications of an old and extensive Indian settlement 
There were many domestic implements. Among the rest were 4 
stone mortar and pestle. * * * Heads of arrows, large quat- 
tities of ashes, and the ground burnt over to a great extent, are 
some of the marks of a long residence there. * * * * O 
the meadow, forty or fifty rods below, near the rocks in the river, 
was evidently a burying ground. The remains of many of the 
sons of the forest, are there deposited. Bones have frequently 
been turned up by the plow. That they were buried in the sit- 
ting posture, peculiar to the Indians, has been ascertained. Wher 
the first settlers came here, the remains of a fort were still visible 
on the Ox Bow. * * * The size of the fort was plain to! 
seen. Trees as large as a man’s thigh were growing in the CF 
cumference of the old fort. A profusion of white flint-stones and 
