weather.
About three quarters of a mile from the above, on the same
Beaver Brook, and on the farm of Ira IIajilin, is found similar
evidence of the manufacture of Indian relics, anions; other thinirs,
gouges, chisels and arrows, of three or four different kinds of stone.
30 nrsTOUY or ad^iso^ c:iuxTr.
This statement was rececivccl from Mr. IIa?.iltx, and communicated
to us, with specimens of the manufacture, by Rurus Mead, Esq..
•who was also personally acf[uainteJ with the locality, and generally
with the ficts.
Major OiuN FtELD, of Cornwall, states, that on his farm, on the
road leading south from the Congregational Church, scattered arrow
heads have been frequently found, and Judge Tilden says, that on
his farm, not far distant, similar discoveries have been made. Major
Field also says, that on the same farm, then owned by Bexjamix
Stevens, he AvassliOAvn by Mr. Stevexs, in 1807, what was re-
garded as the loundation of an Indian wigwam or hut. It was n.
ridge of earth, about six inches high, in a square shape, the sides
of which Averc eight or twelve feet long, the ridge running all around
except at the east end Avas a A-acant space, apparently designed for a
door Avay. The earth was throAvn up, to form the ridge on the out-
side. The ridges have noAv disappeared.
Major Field also says, that on the farm of his father, on which
his grandfather Avas an early settler, in a burying ground on sandy
land, in digging a graA-e in 1802, there were thrown up three Indian
relics, of the same size and shape and in the form of a heart, about
fiA'C inches long and three