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that its length from east to west was one mile. A town covering upwards 
of five hundred acres must have contained a population greatly transcending 
all our ideas of credibility. A mile to the east of the settlement there is a 
burying ground containing three or four acres, and close to the west end 
there is another. This town was on elevated ground, about twelve miles 
distant from the salt springs of Onondaga, and was well calculated for de- 
fence. On the east side there is a perpendicular descent of one hundred 
feet into a deep ravine, through which a fine stream flows, and on the 
north side a similar one. There are three old forts distant about eight 
miles from each other, and forming a triangle which encloses the town; one 
a mile south of the present village of Jamesville, and the others north-east 
and south-east in Pompey ; and they were in all probability erected to cover 
the town, and to protect the inhabitants against the attacks of an enemy. 
All these forts are of a circular or elliptical form. There are bones scattered 
all over the ground. An ash tree growing on it was cut down, and the 
concentric circles showed it to be ninety-three years old. On a heap of 
mouldered ashes, composing the site of a large house, I saw a white pine 
tree eight and a half feet in circumference, and at least one hundred and 
thirty years old. On the line of the north side the town was probably 
stormed. There are graves on each side close to the precipice ; sometimes 
five or six persons were thrown promiscuously into the same grave. If the 
invaders had been repulsed, the inhabitants would have interred the killed 
in the usual places; but from the circumstance of there being graves near the 
ravine and in the village, I am induced to believe that the town was taken. 
On the south side of this ravine, a gun-barrel, several bullets, a piece of 
lead, and a skull perforated by a ball, were discovered. Indeed gun-barrels, 
axes, swords, and hoes, are found all over these grounds; and I precured 
the following articles, which | now transmit to the society to be deposited 
in their collection—two mutilated gun-barrels, two axes, a hoe, a bell with- 
out a clapper, a piece of a large bell, a finger-ring, a sword-blade, pieces of 
bayonets, gun-locks, and earthen ware, a pipe, door-latch, beads, and 
several other small things. ‘These demonstrate European intercourse, and 
