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cient massacre and pillage, in which an Indian village was destroyed, 

 and the bones of the slain afterwards collected and buried by their 

 friends. The bones were in a tolerable state of preservation, but soon 

 decayed on exposure. It was estimated that there were between thirty 

 and forty skeletons buried here, besides detached bones of animals. 



Among fragments of broken pottery found in this vicinity, was an 

 entire pot, having a capacity of about three pints, and the form repre- 

 sented in the sketch. 



A fragment of a pipe, contained the representation of a human face 

 on each side, only a part of which remained, was also found ; a figure 

 of which is here inserted. 



In the town of Macomb, St. Lawrence count}^ are found three trench 

 enclosures, and numerous places where broken fragments of rude pot- 

 tery, ornaments of steatite, and beds of charcoal and ashes, indicate 

 the sites of Indian villages. It may be proper to state, that this region 

 was not inhabited at the time of its first settlement by the whites. 



One of these ruins is on the farm of William P. Houghton, near the 

 bank of Birch creek, and is the one which has furnished the greatest 



