al population. If no absolute historical light
be elicited thereby, we shall be the more likelf-
to get rid of some of the confessed darkness en-
. yeldping the subject, and thu# narrow the unsatisfying
and historically hateful boundaries of
mystery.
In applying these principles tp the antiquarian
remains of the area of western?'NeV York, which
has been a theme of frequent allusion and de^-
scription, atdeast since the life time uf De Witt
Clinton, it is merely proposed to offer a fe\^ contributions
to the store offd#^ antiquities!* in the
hope that other and abler hands may proceed! in
the investigation* -
A N C IE N T TQ R T
Some years have elapsed'' since I visited this
work, (18!-%). -and th^plough and ' spade may
have further obliterated the lincsf then more or
less fully apparent. But in the | meantime no
notice of it has been published. The following
outlines denote its extent and character.
A indicates the lines of atpicketted wdtk. B
is an extensive plain, covered with wild grass
and some shrubbery, which had onctfe been in
cultivation. The northern edge: of this plain is
traversed by a stream, which has worn its bed
down in the unconsolidated strata, so as to create
quite a deep gorged C;; This stream is joined
from the west, by a small run, having its origin
in a spring, D. Its channel, at the point of
junction, is as deep below the level of the plain
as the other.* The point of junction itself forms
a natural -horn-work, which covered access to the
water. The angle O f the plain, thus marked,
Constituted the point defended. The excavations,
E, may havf pnce been square. They are now
■cupola or blastTiirnace,%here -the je d ;d l lenticular oxyde is re duce
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