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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY.

19. Here are three hamlets, with the ordinary relics, on lot 75, and there are others on lot 74. On this lot also was found a fine copper spear-head, and another was obtained on lot 64.

20. A village site remains on lot 96, where arrow-heads, celts, and a little pottery are found. This is on the Seneca River, and smaller ones occur at Cross Lake.

21. On lot 99 are two or three hamlets, revealing arrow heads, hammer-stones, pestles, gouges, and celts. On the same lot was recently found a fine and very sharp copper celt. There are some smaller sites not mentioned here.

Town of Elbridge.—Small sites occur on the shore of Cross Lake, on lots 31, 32, and 33, with the ordinary relics.

23. Lot 34 contains the remains of a large village and one or two smaller hamlets, where arrow-heads, pestles and mortars, celts, fine gouges, and a little pottery have been found.

25. Lot 35 has similar remains on several sites, one historic. Stone pipes are found here in graves, and in a recent burial-place a fine human-headed pipe was unearthed. West of Carpenter's Brook one of the rare pentagonal arrows was found by the writer.

34. On a high hill on lot 70 was an earthwork, which Clark describes as rectangular, with two gateways, and inclosing 4½ acres. It really was elliptical, and inclosed a smaller area. Pottery is abundant there yet.

Fig. 5.

35. A smaller one on a hill on lot 81 inclosed 1¼ acres. It is described by Clark as having straight walls on three sides and a curved wall on the fourth. It was probably also elliptical, but has been leveled.

36. On lot 83 was a large Indian village. The writer has ascertained that Clark was mistaken in saying that hundreds of grooved axes were found there. None were found, and they are very rare in Onondaga County.

37. Here was a circular fort on lot 73, inclosing about an acre.