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and in the Niagara peninsula according to information from 
George Oliver of Jordan Station, Ontario. The lodge sites are 
circular, while some Neutral sites are oblong. The surface 
'appearance of the sites resembles that of the Neutral sites of 
Blenheim township, but the finds and the location of the finds 
are different. They contain little or no ash, while Neutral 
sites are often largely made up of ash layers. 
Much of the pottery being similar to the Potomac-Chesapeake 
ware, seems to be of a type made by tribes uf the Algonquian 
linguistic stock. These pre-Neutral sites, therefore, may have 
been of Algonquian occupation. All the sites found are pre- 
historic and pre-Neutral, the earliest period known in this 
general region, whereas in Blenheim township evidences were 
found of three distinct aboriginal periods — the pre-Neutral, 
the Neutral, and the European. They probably antedate 
not only Neutral but all Iroquoian sites in this part of the country 
and perhaps even in the whole of the Hurontario peninsula 
and parts of New York. 
