Among the manufactures of Oneida are furniture, silver-plated ware, engines and machinery, pulley, steel vaults and hosiery. About 6 M. to the northwest is Oneida Lake, a small lake of considerable beauty, 18 M. long and 5 M. wide.
Syracuse to Buffalo
290 M. SYRACUSE, Pop. 171,717.
(Train 51 passes 2:31; No. 3, 3:45; No. 41, 8:10; No. 25, 8:50; No. 19, 12:25. Eastbound: No. 6 passes 2:40; No. 26, 3:28; No. 16, 8:30; No. 22, 10:35.)
The Syracuse region first became known to Europeans through its salt deposits along the shore of Onondaga Lake which had been discovered and used by the Indians.
Champlain's Attack on an Iroquois Fort
(From Champlain's "Nouvelle France," 1619)
Of this Indian fort which stood near Lake Oneida, Champlain says: "Their village was enclosed with strong quadruple palisades of large timber, 30 ft. high, interlocked the one with the other, with an interval of not more than half a foot between them; with galleries in the form of parapets, defended with double pieces of timber, proof against our Arquebuses, and on one side they had a pond with a never-failing supply of water, from which proceeded a number of gutters which they had laid along the intermediate space, throwing the water without and rendering it effectual inside for extinguishing fire."