North Carolina, on the edge of the
ancient country of the Sara, among whom the Spaniards built a fort in 1566. The
works include a dam of cut stone, a series of low pillars of cut stone, arranged in
squares as though intended for foundations, a stone-walled well, a quarry from which
the stone had been procured, a fire pit, and a series of sinks, extending along the
stream, in which were found remains of timbers suggesting the subterranean cabins
on Dukes creek. All these antedated the first settlement of that region, about the
year 1750. Ancient mining indications are also reported from Kings mountain,
about twenty miles distant (Reinhardt MS, 1900, in Bureau of American Ethnology
archives I. The Spanish miners of whom Lederer heard in 1670 and Moore in 1690
were probably at work in thisneighborhood.
(12) Sir William Johnson (p. 38): This great soldier, whose history is so insep-
arably incited with that of the Six Nations, was born in the county Meath, Ireland,
in 1715, and died at Johnstown, New York, in 1774. The younger son of an Irish
gentleman, he left his native country in 1738 in consequence of a disappointment in
love, and emigrated to America, where he undertook the settlement of a large tract
of wild land belonging to his uncle, which lay along the south side of the Mohawk
river in what was then the wilderness of New York. This brought him into close
contact with the Six Nations, particularly the Mohawks, in whom he became SO much
interested as to learn their language and in some degree to accommodate himself to
their customs, sometimes even to