bones in the grave, one just on the head, one above the knees, one below the knees, and one on the feet. There was a brass kettle at the feet, also a large amount of old gun locks and iron tools. The bear's tusks, pipe and baldric beads were near the right side of the head. One ax was at the feet and one at the head. The flints and pipe were also at the head. In the kettle we found the remains of a fishes head and something that seemed to have been a ladle. The pipe I consider one of the finest specimens I have ever seen, being a Wolf totem pipe, the Wolf looking toward the smoker. The 2,500 wampum beads were on the arms above the elbows and around the neck and near the head.

May 5.-Was at the Lane farm two miles south of Genoa on the west bank of Great Salmon Creek. We opened two graves. From one we took an ax and 83 green and white glass beads. An earthen dish and tortoise shell were also there, but in a very fragmentary condition. I should think the dish would hold about one pint. The shell had several perforations in it.

May 7.-At East Cayuga, or Old Town, the first grave opened contained one skeleton and one twoquart kettle. The second contained one three-pint kettle and one one-quart kettle; 1,700 beads, mostly wampum; 220 olivella shells of extra size; one gun and lock; two large iron keys; five hammer stones;

two knives; two pairs of molds; one perfect bone spoon was found in one of the kettles.

The third grave contained one skeleton and part of the skeleton of a dog, the head and trunk could not be found. There was also one 1 pint kettle in good condition and a few red glass beads.

The fourth contained one skeleton and one brass kettle, both of which were badly decayed.

May 14.-Same place found the skeleton of man and small dog in the same grave. Several skeletons were found near this one and about three feet south we found parts of six skeletons, also the heads of two dogs. Depth about 20 inches.

May 18.-East Cayuga or Old Town on the west side of gully found three skeletons. From this grave were taken 6,000 beads, 10 baldric beads, eight carved shell ornaments, and a brass kettle.

May 29.-Dug on Frontenac Island and found three skeletons. There seems to be a layer of bones over nearly the whole place, but no relics.

April 16.-At North Cayuga I found a string of 72 large discodial beads around the neck of a skeleton. A short distance from here we found a cache, containing 20 flints; 20 arrow heads; paint; pieces of mica; small celt: stones; flints used to scrape arrows with."

REMEMBRANCER.

The following letters and accounts were published in the "American Remembrancer," a paper published in London during the Revolutionary War, which purports to be an impartial and authentic collection of facts. These papers were republished as facts in "Thatcher's Indian Biography," published in 1842, but in a later edition Mr. Thatcher states that there has recently arisen some doubts as to the authenticity of the original articles, some claiming that they are a fabrication, "for obvious political reasons" from the pen of Dr. Franklin.*

Whether true or not, it is published here as affording a curious example of the methods employed by

* It appears now to be the general belief among historians that the paper in question is a forgery, also that at no time during the war did the British Government or its responsible agents pay for American scalps. However the government did hire and bribe the Indians to fight against the colonists, and, of course, they fought in their own savage fashion and took many scalps. We read in good authorities that Gen. St. Ledger offered $20 for every American scalp, and one poet is said to "voice the common belief of his times" when he puts into the mouth of one commander the words, "That shop for British purchase and intrigue, Scalp-market overt when a baronet

Is the shop-keeper, trading in the lives

Of Yankee settlers, and their babes and wives."

the Indians to communicate by signs and illustrations.-American Remembrancer, 1782. Vol. 14, Page 185. BOSTON, March 12.

Extract from a letter from Captain Gerrish of the New England Militia, dated Albany, March 7.

"The peltry taken in the expedition, will, you see, amount to a good deal of money. The possession of booty at first gave us pleasure, but we were struck with horror to find among the packages, eight large ones, containing scalps of our unfortunate country folks, taken in the last three years by the Seneca Indians from the inhabitants of the frontiers of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and sent by them as a present to Col. Haldimand, Governor of Canada, in order to be by him transmitted to England. They were accompanied by the following curious letter to that gentleman:"

TIOGA, January 3, 1787.

"May it please your Excellency,

"At the request of the Seneca chiefs, I herewith send to your Excellency, under the care of James Hoyd, eight packages of scalps, cured, dried and hooped and painted with all the triumphal marks of which the following is the invoice and explanation.

"No. 1. Containing forty-three scalps of Congress soldiers, killed in different skirmishes. These are stretched on black hoops, four inches in diameter, the inside of the skin painted red with a small black

spot, to show that they were killed with a bullet. Also of sixty-two of farmers killed in their homes; the hoops painted red-the skin painted brown and marked with a hoe-a black circle all around to denote their being surprised in the night-and a black hatchet in the middle, signifying that they were killed with that weapon.

"No. 2. Containing ninty-eight of farmers, killed in their houses-hoops red, figure of a hoe to mark their profession-great white circle and sun to show they were surprised in the day time-a little red foot -to show they stood upon their defence, and died fighting for their lives and families.

"No. 3. Containing ninety-seven of farmers, hoops green, to show they were killed in the fields, a large white circle with a little round mark on it for the sun, to show that it was in the day-time, black bullet marks on some and a hatchet on others.

"No. 4. Containing one hundred and two of farmers, mixture of several of the marks above, only eighteen were marked with a little yellow flame, to denote their being of prisoners burnt alive after being scalped their nails pulled out by the roots and other torments. One of these latter, supposed to be that of an American clergyman, his band being fixed to the hoop of his scalp. Most of the farmers appear, by the hair, to have been young or middle-aged men, their being but sixty-seven very grey heads among them all, which makes the service more essential.