“ 3. The second, and most curious, seems to
indicate an earUeE age and people;
“ The heads found at Fort Hill are long and
coarse, made of baked clay; and may.kaye had
the same origin as the third ^ipe.
“ Fort Hill cannot have heeh tbrmed by the
French as one oft their posts to 'aid in the destruction
of the English colonies. In 1689, or
T§6 years ago, the French in Canada made serious
attempts to destroy the English colony of
New York. If the French had made. Fort Hill
a post as early as 1660, or 185 .years ago, and
then dgperted it, the trees could not have grown
to the size,of the forekfi generally in 1810, or in
150 years afterwards. The white - settlements
had extended * only twelve miles west of Avon ’
in 1798, and some years'after 18O0y Fort Hill
was covered with a dense forest. A chesnut
tree, cut down in 1842 at Rochester, showed
254 concentric circles oft wood, and must have
been more than 200 years old in 1800., So opposed
is the notion that this was a deserted
French post. ; ;
“ Must we not refer Fort Hill to that race
which peopled this country before the Indians,
who raised so many monuments greatly exceeding
the power of the Indians,- apd who lived at
a remote era ?”
C . CITADEL OF KIENUKÂ.
ƒ In the preceding, sketches, evidences have
been .presented of tl|fe readiness and good judgement
of the aboriginal fort builders of western
New York*,, m availing themselves of steeps,
gulfs,' defiles,- and other marked, localities, in
establishing works for security or-defence. This
traft is, however, in no page more strikingly exemplified
than i^fhe eurioùs.antique work Ipe^
"fore >iiSf called, by the Tuscarpras,
Mimykg,^ The term Kienuka is. said to mean
*It is h^oftwithout so ml thing^bördferiftg on/anachrpnisto r
- that t - l ihs '"od41® call'ed New York,k m re-
fèrhnce feAmnsactiöhsï ®f>i; only ke'fora the'bestowal of the
.title tû.'l'664; bot long before the Euroteam-raçe-sfet fophpn
the oontinentt; Spll, m©jè inappropriate, hgvsfever, was Ég-
tea-m olNevsr- Netherlands, that,% New which, it
from Î6Q9 to iklpl, many parts of th esb^be ing characterized
by Mt^; ’air haVisg àn* elevation of
many Jïundrécfs Öfifeèt hfeorefthe M M H M j l of these
ancient periods', a ti-tfe drawn fxptn ih’e> native vocabulary
would better (accerdwith the -period 'under,- dj^U£SK>ïtelf not
with the Ï^wæ o / euphony.' B%the native triées were poor
generaliters, and o ^ ^ tT o give. gePep f names to the land.
The term of Hao-nao fôrthV'contih’eirtf'br island as they called
it'Occurs, hut'this%talld''hayè nö ■brtbie'peTtih.ènce applied to
NeW York, thari to,any other, purtion obit. ; The geographical
feature,most characteristic# the i» nçxt
ip prominence, Q^ttyrio, and ei^hfr would have furnished a
bettete'cognomen lor-the State, they been thought of in
season, But it isfoh Tate ndw to make the change, and eveh
for the remote era alluded to, the ferme under which the
Gountrÿ'has’grown greàti istto -beepieferred. It is already the
talismanic ^ o rd /^ f every 'ho^orajbk and abcial.reroinkcence.