cultivation, and the dotted ellipses through these
grounds; are laid down from tradition, rather
than from any well defined vestiges in these
fields of the original wall yet visible. D D, represents
a native forest. Judging from the curves
of the portions of wall entire at B B, in connection
with the area pointed out by thé occupants
this work may have had a circumferènde of one
thousand feet. It occupied a commanding site.
The'sections of the wall remaining, denote the
labor of many hands; and .if fthis rampart was
crowned with palisades, and secured in the usual
manner with gates, it must not only have furnished
a garrison to a large body of warriors,
but have been a work of much strength.
In excavating thegroundsfor the read, in the
approach' to the village; human borreslwere found
in considerable quantities, on the descent of the
hill, together with'some of the UsUal vestiges of
ancient Indian art, as evinced in the ^manufacture
of stone and clay pipes and implements.
Nothing of this kind had, howéver' -been, preserved,
which appeared worthy of particular
description.
| .ANCIENT ENTRENCHMENTS'. ON FORT IIILL.
The following diagram of this work has been
drawn from a pen sketch, forwarded by the Rev.
Mr. Dewey, of Rochester.
The work occurs on an elevated point of land
formed by the junction of a small stream, called
Fordfiam’s brook, With Allen’s creek* a tributary
of the Genesee1 river.- Its position is about three
miles north the village of Le Roy, and some
ten or twelve northeast of Batavia. The best
view of the hill, as one of the natural features of
the country, is obtained a short distance north
of it,' on the road from Bergen toXo Roy.
To attain a proper conception^ of its susceptibilities
and capacity, as the site*} of a work of
defence, it is essential to conceive the country,
for some distance,, to have:: had the level of the
extreme plain, terming the highest part of the