4. The direction of the sides may have had some reference to the four
cardinal points, though the situation of the ravines naturally marked
out the lines.
5. It cannot have been designed merely to catch wild animals to be
driven into it from the south. The oblique cut down to the spring is
opposed to this supposition, as well as the insufficiency of such a
trench to confine the animals of the forest.
6. The same reasons render it improbable that the quadrangle was
designed to confine and protect domestic animals.
7. It was probably a sort of fortified place. There might have been a
defence on the south by a _stockade_ or some similar means, which might
have entirely disappeared.
By what people was this work done?
The articles found in the burying ground at F. offer no certain reply.
The axes, chisels, &c. found on the Indian grounds in this part of the
State, were evidently made of the greenstone or trap of New-England,
like those found on the Connecticut river, in Massachusetts. The pipe
of limestone might be from that part of the country. The pipes seem to
belong to different eras.