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Trails . 
From the River Nith in Blenheim township, the next town- 
ship to the east, a trail extended to the banks of Horner creek 
in this township and passed through the country about midway 
between the two concessions. 1 The course indicated on the 
accompanying map is presumably correct. 
A trail, indicated approximately on the map, ran along the 
high hills, frorp the ‘‘Indian Spring” in lot. 3, concession III, 
in a southwesterly direction, according to E. M. Hersee. Per- 
haps it connected with the Indian trail followed by the old 
stage road in East Oxford township to the south. 
CONCLUSION. 
The surface survey of this township, less than 13 miles 
long and barely 9 miles -wide, an area much smaller than 
100 square miles, resulted in the location in less than nine 
field-working days, counting earlier work as well as that for the 
Geological Survey, of twenty-six lodge and village sites, five 
burial places, and many surface finds. This makes a discovery 
of more than three sites per day. As there is no reason to con- 
sider this township exceptionally favourable for prehistoric 
occupation, it being in the midst of Ontario and not bordering 
a great lake or having a very large river, we may conclude 
that the other townships in the area common to southern 
Ontario, the cleared forest area, the St. Lawrence lowlands 
and the Iroquoian linguistic area, would average as productive. 
We may expect some to be more barren, but others, those 
located on lakes or including special features as quarries or rich 
corn land, to far surpass it. It thus seems that there is ample 
material in this area for archaeological work. 
The lodge sites are located on high land, ridges, or the edges 
of benches, but always near a spring or a stream. This indicates 
where we may expect to find sites in other parts of this area. 
Similar sites occur in Simcoe county 2 according to Hunter, 
^'intern berg, W, J., “Archaeology of Blenheim Township”. (The Ontario Arch- 
aeological Report for 1902, p. 69.) 
2 Hunter, A, F., “Huron Village Sites in Flos and Vespra townships, Simcoe 
county,” Toronto, 1907, pp. 25, 34, 49. 
