Localities to be examined, namely:
1. POMPEY, Onondaga.
Vestiges of a town, 500 acres.
Three circular walls, or elliptical forts, 8 miles apart.
These formed a triangle, enclosing the town.
2. CAMILLUS, Onondaga.
Two forts.
One 3 acres on a high hill.
East, a gate, west, spring 10 rods off.
Shape elliptical.
Ditch deep.
Wall 10 feet high.
Second fort, half a mile distant.
Lower ground.
Constructed like the other.
About half as large.
Shells, testaceous animals—plenty.
Fragments, pottery.
Pieces of brick.
“Other signs” of ancient settlement, found by first settlers.
[Clinton.]
3. EAST BANK OF SENECA RIVER.
Six miles south of Cross and Salt lakes.
Forty miles south of Oswego.
Discovered 1791, New-York Magazine, 1792 with picture writing,
on a stone 5 feet by 3-1/2, and 6 inches thick, evidently
sepulchral.
Two hundred and twenty yards length.
Fifty-five yards breadth.
Bank and ditch entire.
Two apertures middle of parallelogram, one towards the _water_,
other _land_.
Second work, half a mile south.
Half-moon. Outwork.
Singularity,
extremities of the crescent from larger fort.
Bank and ditch of both, large old trees.
Pottery well burned, red, indented.
East, these works traced 18 miles east of Manlius square.