NORTH



AMt9RICAN INDIANS.



       INDIAN ANTIQUITIES4

(From  Governor Clinton's Discourse.)



" It would be an unpardonable omission,



tion, while treating



reason to
country b
dians, it
populous,
The found
are found



on this



believe, that previ
y the progenitors
was inhabited by
and much farthi
ierous remains of
in this country, c



the Onondaama River, and fr
military tract, the Genesee



.(



0



;u1bjec-
uIls to 1



ot

Br

or
)rr
lbo



f the
L race
aldw
icieni
nmen
i then
untry



riot to men-



t, that there is every
the occupancy of this
present nation of In-
of men much more
inced in civilization.
L fortificaitions, which
lLeing- principally near
ice spreadi n g over the
, and the lat-ds of the



j



Holland Land Company, over the tern
Ohio and its tributary streams, the
Erie, and extending even west of the'
strate apopulation far exceeding that
this country was first settled.
  " I have seen several of these wo
parts of this state. There is a larae
Onondaga; one in Pompey, and an
one in Camillus, eight miles from Aut
six miles; another one mile,and on(
that villaae. Between the Senecca (
        b



'itory adjoininig the
country on Lake
Mississippi, demon-
)f the Indians when



rks



10'
Mu

or



t
I



there are severel; three within a few m
Near the village of Canadaigua there
word they are scattered all over that c
  "' These forts were, generally speakir
most commandingC ground. The wall



were earthen. Th
works. On some
seen, which, from t
must have been stai
dred and sixty, and
evident indications,
since the erection 4



e ditches were on
of the parapets, oa
the number of the
rding one hundred



ti
k
C
a



in the western



ne in the town of
her in Manlius;
rn; one in Scipio,
haif a mile from
d Cayuga Lakes
iles of each other.
are three. In a



ountry.
ig, erected o
s or breastv
he exterior (
trees were 4
oncentric ci
nd fifty, two



n the
vorks
f the
to be
reles,
hun-



three hundred years; anid there were
, not only that they had sprung up
cf those works, but that they were at



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