1. A crucifix Of brass of two inches in length,
ornamented by a human figure, and having a
metallic, loop fot suspending it.
2. An octagonal medal, four-tenths of an inch,
of the same material; bearing a figure with thé
name St. Agatha, and thé -Latin word ora, a paît
of the G regorian ch ant.
É; A similarihedal, five-tenths Of an inch' in
length, .with a figure, inscribed St. Lucia, and
thé same fragment of a chant.
4. A rude'medal of lead, an inch and fbür-
tenths long, ovate, with the figure of the Saviour,
as is supposed, being that of a person suspended
by the outstretched hands, • however, and thé
figure of a serpent, as if this form of temptation,
had been presented during his advent. On the
reverse, is a sitting figure^ which bears most
resemblance 4o a. common and characteristic
position of one of the native priests or prophets.
Should this conjecture be correct, this figure may
have been intended, adopting the--Indian method,
to teach the office of the Saviour by a
symbol. He is thus I shown, however,.Jö be
merely thepriest and prophet of men-—an idea
which does not coincide with catholic thëofögy,
and which, if not enlarged and corrected by
verbal teaching, would convey no conception of
his divine character and atonement, and thus
leave the Onondaga neophyte as essentially in
the dark as before. To figure the Saviour as the
great Jmakeed of mén, as is done in this medal,
is indeed the most extraordinary and audacious
act «of which the- historypf missions among rude
nations affords any parallel; The novelty of
this feature' in this apparently home-wrought
model, giyes'it a claim to be hereafter figured.
5v An iron horse-shoe, four and a half inches
long nearly, and five finches’(lacking two-tenths)
broad, with three elongated nail' holes in each
side, and a clumsy steel cork, partially worn.
Thek peculiar fabric *qf this;shoe,t its clumsiness
und 'spread,land the little mechanical skill which
it eyiUeps in the hammering*, and general make,
denote it to betvery clearly the workmanship of
a Canadian blacksmith, such as a rude, Canadian
blacksmith instill, to, be witnessed, in the lake
country, and to have been, ,at tbe same time,
intended for. the unfarried', hoofs of the Canadian
horse. |&£ -
", g. A pair of iron ,strap hinges common and
coarse. These my informant had turned to account,
by employing them to hung the little gate
which fie efts through a-small flower plat, to his
dwelling house. See figure E.
These articles have been selected for notice
from many of .mote common occurrence, such as
beads of coarse paste, enamel nnd glass, of
various sizes and colors,-which are evidently of
European make. My informant further stated
that a blacksmiths anvil, vice, horn, and almost
.every other article,©f a smiths shop, had bèen
ftem time Jo time found on the site or in the
^cinity, hut there was nptbing.of this kind in
his possession- On the south declivity of the