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CHAPTER I I .
HISTORICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL INQUIRIES.
SKETCH OF THE I b OlQiIjOIS' GROUP OF ABORIGINAL TRIBES—r
. E thnological.&TJ(*GEls.TjLONs^— Indian'Cosmogony— G leams
OF THEIR A n CIE|TT GENERAL HISTORY.
The statistical data which have been brought
forward, respecting the Iroquois cantons, and
their limits, may be taken as the basis of some
considerations on the ancient history and antiquities,
and the general ethnology of this part
of ‘North America, Much intereiw has been excited
from time to time, and as the area of settlement
and cultivation has been extended on
the subject of thé topics, reaching as the inquiry
does, from the Gulf of Mexico to the great lakes,
with extensions, at some points, laterally, through
and east of the Alleghanies. By far the most
striking and important of these vestiges of aqcient
-power, and partial civilization, east of that primary
range, mark their northern terminus, in
the fertile area of western Ne w York—pharac-
terize'd as this area is, by its numerous streams
and interior lakes, and presenting a superficies
abounding in all the elements of ancient sub