Such parts only of these notes and memorandums are retained, as have been referred to, as original materials, of which there is some particular fact or statement, which has not been exhausted. Sometimes the note itself was chiefly of a mnemonic character, and designed to recall further particulars entrusted to the memory.

MEMORANDA, NEW-YORK, JULY 1.
ANTIQUITIES OF NEW-YORK.

Localities to be examined, namely:

1.Pompey, Onondaga.
Vestiges of a town, 500 acres.
Three circular walls, or elliptical forts, 8 miles apart.
These formed a triangle, enclosing the town.
2.Camillus, Onondaga.
Two forts.
One 3 acres on a high hill.
East, a gate, west, spring 10 rods off.
Shape elliptical.
Ditch deep.
Wall 10 feet high.
Second fort, half a mile distant.
Lower ground.
Constructed like the other.
About half as large.
Shells, testaceous animals—plenty.
Fragments, pottery.
Pieces of brick.
“Other signs” of ancient settlement, found by first settlers.
[Clinton.]
3.1East bank of Seneca River.
Six miles south of Cross and Salt lakes.
Forty miles south of Oswego.
Discovered 1791, New-York Magazine, 1792 with picture writing, on a stone 5 feet by 3½, and 6 inches thick, evidently sepulchral.
Two hundred and twenty yards length.
Fifty-five yards breadth.
Bank and ditch entire.
Two apertures middle of parallelogram, one towards the water, other land.
Second work, half a mile south.
Half-moon.
Outwork.
Singularity, extremities of the crescent from larger fort.
Bank and ditch of both, large old trees.
Pottery well burned, red, indented.
East, these works traced 18 miles east of Manlius square.
4.1Oxford, Chenango county.
East banks Chenango river.
Great antiquity.
North to Sandy creek, 14 miles from Sacketts Harbor, near one which covers 50 acres.
Fragments of pottery.
West in great numbers.
5.Onondaga Town.
6.Scipio.
7.Auburn, two forts.
8.Canandaigua, three forts.
9.Between Seneca and Cayuga lakes—several.
10.Ridgeway, Genesee:
Several forts and places of burial.
11.Allen’s Residence, 1788.
Two miles west.
A flat.
Deserted Indian village.
Junction of Allen’s creek with Genesee.
Eight miles north of Kanawageas.
Five miles north of Magic Spring.
Six acres.
Six gates.
Ditch eight feet wide.
Six feet deep.
Circular on three sides.
Fourth side, a high bank.
A covered way, near two hundred years old.
Second, half a mile south, on a greater eminence.
Less dimensions.
But deeper ditch.
More lofty and commanding.
12.Joaika:
Twenty-six miles west of Kanawageas.
Six miles further.
Tegatainedaghgwe, or double-fortified town.
A fort at each end.
First about four acres.
Two miles distant another.
Eight acres.
Ditch about first five or six feet deep.
Small stream one side.
Traces of six gates.
Dug way to the water.
Large oaks two hundred years old or more.
Remains of a funeral pile—bones.
Mound six feet by twenty—thirty diameter—(sixty to ninety.)
13.Path To Buffalo Creek:
Heights—fortified.
14.West of Tonawanda:
Still another.
15.On Branch of the Delaware:
A fort one thousand years old, by trees.
16.South side of Erie:
Cattaraugus creek to Pennsylvania line, fifty miles.
Two to four miles apart—some half a mile.
Some contain five acres.
Wall and breast-works of earth.
Appearance of ancient beds of creeks.
[Note the geological change.]
Lake Erie retired from two to five miles.
17.Further South:
A chain of parallel forts.
Two table grounds.
Recession of lake.

All these vestiges denote long periods of time, and probably different eras of occupation. Who preceded the Iroquois? Who preceded their predecessors? Do these vestiges tell the story? How shall we study them? By antiquities; by language; by comparison with other races of America, Asia, Africa, Europe.

Albany, July 5th.—Examine the site of ancient Mohawk residence in 1609, on the island and its vicinity at the mouth of Norman’s Kill. Look for their ancient burial places. Bones, pieces of pottery, and other objects of art may tell something bearing on their history. Is the Oasis opposite the turnpike gate, the site of their ancient burial-ground? Is this the spot denoted by their name of Tawasentha, or is it to be sought in other places, at the mouth, or up the valley of this stream?

Utica.—The Mohawk valley appears to have no monumental, or other evidences of its having been occupied by races prior to the Mohawks.