Whence this name? The Indian term is Te-ho-so-ro-ro in Mohawk, and
De-o-se-o-wa in Seneca. Ellicott writes it Tu-she-way. Others, in other
forms. In all, it is admitted to mean the place of the linden, or
bass-wood tree.
There is an old story of buffaloes being killed here. Some say a horse
was killed by hungry _Frenchmen_, and palmed off for buffalo meat at
the camp. How came a horse _here_?
A curious bone needle was dug up this year, in some excavations made in
Fort Niagara, which is, clearly, of the age prior to the discovery.
Bones and relics must stand for the chronology of American antiquity.
America is the tomb of the red man. All the interest of its
anti-Columbian history, arises from this fact.