Creek. KnoAving that our friend,
Philip C. Tucker, Esq., is much devoted to similar inquiries, and
believing him to be acquainted with all the discoveries in that neigh-
borhood, we wrote to him for such information as he might have.
His letter in answer to our request, is dated March 24, 1859, and
encloses a letter from ^Ir. J.mmes Cr.\ne, who calls it a '• battle axe,"
and says it was picked up by his brother, George F. Crane, at Fort
Cassin, mouth of Otter Creek, '' on the embankment thrown up
during the last war, to prevent the British fleet from ascending to
Vergennes;" that he left it in the hands of Mr. Cobb, and he
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adds, "I have picked up many Indian relics at Fort Cassin, and at
other points on Otter Creek,bringing in a few additional arrow heads. One piece of in-
formation however, grew out of it, which I believe to be true, that
my copper arrow head, has another of the same metal to match it,
and a far better one." It Vv'as ploughed up a few years ago, in
Ferrisburgh ; and, although lie has not been able to see it, he says,
" I have no doubt of its existence." In speaking of the Indian
relics in Bristol, which Judge Munsill has described, he says, " I
have very reliable information as to the existence of similar relics
in Monkton, and particularly in the region of the pond. Some
thirty years ago, an Indian burying ground Avas disclosed in that
vicinity, and some four or five skeletons discovered, which were
much talked about at the time,