Note 1753 — Chapter VI · (continued 3)

A few minor references may be given. The Smithsonian Reports have papers by D. Trowbridge (1863); and by F. H. Cushing on those of Orleans County (1874). W. L. Stone held them to have been built by Egyptians, who afterward went south (Mag. Amer. Hist., Sept., 1878, ii. 533). Cf. Ibid. v. 35, and S. L. Frey in the Amer. Naturalist, Oct., 1879. A small book, Ancient Man in America (N. Y., 1880), by Frederic Larkin, takes issue with Squier, and believes the builders were not the modern Indians. He says he found in one of the N. Y. mounds, in 1854, a copper relic, with a mastodon, evidently in harness, scratched upon it! H. G. Mercer’s Lenape Stone describes a “gorget stone” dug up in Buck’s County, Penn., in 1872, which shows a carving representing a fight between Indians and the hairy mammoth, which we are also asked to accept as genuine. What is recognized as an ancient burial mound of the Senecas is described at some length in G. S. Conover’s Reasons why the State should acquire the famous burial mound of the Seneca Indians (1888).