PERCH LAKE AND OTHER NEW YORK MOUNDS 29 



There was a mound in Monroe county, a few miles northwest 

 of Scottsville. Two small mounds were west of Irondequoit bay, 

 on high land, the largest being less than 5 feet high. A large one 

 was east of the bay, and another, east of the village of Penfield, was 

 originally 40 feet in diameter and 8 or 9 feet high. Two burial 

 mounds were on the east bank of Genesee river, half a mile below 

 the lower fall. They were 4 feet high and 20 to 25 feet wide. 

 There were other mounds in that vicinity. In Pittsford was a pile 

 of large limestone boulders, the heap being about 12 feet square, 

 between Irondequoit landing and the lake was a cemetery of 200 

 small grave mounds, arranged in rows. The further character was 

 not reported, but single graves are usually depressed. A mound 

 was on the bluff south of Dunbar hollow, which contained stone 

 implements. Mr Harris thought a small island on the west side of 

 Irondequoit bay was mostly artificial, as proved by excavations and 

 grading. It was 90 feet long, 32 wide and 17 feet high, but was 

 not sepulchral, though it contained many fine articles at a depth 

 of 15 feet. 



A mound described in Cambria, Niagara county, should be called 

 an ossuary and contained metallic articles. A stone mound has 

 been reported a mile west of Lockport, and an ordinary one at Gas- 

 port. Two burial mounds of large size were on Tonawanda island. 

 Another was in Wilson, and two in the town of Lewiston. In Sep- 

 tember 1903, the one marked D on Schoolcraft's map was opened. 

 He called it " a small mound or barrow," but if it ever had much 

 elevation cultivation had long before removed all signs of this. As 

 it has not before been described a brief account of it will be given 

 here. The first skull was found 6 or 8 inches below the present 

 level of the ground, and the skeletons were estimated at over 300. 

 Over 200 skulls were secured and none had been injured, the place 

 representing well the ossuaries of Canada. The date may have been 

 not far from 1620, perhaps a little later, while the Neutral nation 

 still occupied land in New York. The pit, excavated by Mr John 

 Mackay of Niagara Falls, was about 18 feet long and from 12 to 

 14 feet wide, with a depth of y/ 2 feet from the surface. The form 

 was an irregular ellipse, and the bottom was of rock and clay. To 



