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Title: History of the Catholic church in California
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Gleeson, W. (William), 1822-1903
Subjects: Catholic Church Jesuits Franciscans Missions
Publisher: San Francisco, Printed for the author by A. L. Bancroft, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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It was partlysurrounded by a ditch, while on one quarter a pre-cipitate bank formed its defence. The enclosurewas connected with the river by a causeway—acircumstance of usual occurrence in connectionwith works of the kind, as we shall afterward see. On the Tonawanda, at an interval of a couple ofmiles, are the remains of two other enclosures,the one forming an area of four and the other ofeight acres. The intermediate tract between theforts has been regarded as the site of an ancientcity, from the signification of the name, which, inthe Indian vocabulary, signifies the double fortifiedtown. Much more important, both in extent andgeneral outline, are the remains at Pompey, inOnandaga County, where a fortified town of fivehundred acres is shown to have existed.^ This large,populous town was defended by three circularforts, triangularly situated, and at equal distances.In keeping with this, if not even greater, are the (1) Vide Clintons Memoir. Ohio. (Eight miles SE. from, CkiRicotheJ
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1 - ~ -■ . A .Z Bancroft A Cos S.F. APPENDIX. 285 numerous, extensive ruins on the south bank ofthe Licking, near Newark/ These works com-prised an octagonal and circular fort, connected byparallel walls, a circular and square fort similarlyconnected, an enclosure containing one hundredand fifty acres, together with numerous smallworks of defence, underground passages, and anobservatory thirty feet high. The area comprisedby the whole was between three and four hun-dred acres. At Camillus, and on the Senecariver, like evidences of this ancient peoples pres-ence are to be seen. In short, all through theState of )^ew York, from Massachusetts to Niagara,and from Delaware to the St. Lawrence, no lessthan one hundred of these ancient remains havebeen found. In Virginia, North and South Carolina, Geor-gia, Florida, and all along the eastern coast, liketraces of this once powerful, numerous, militaryrace have been discovered. Near Wheeling,writes Mr. Bradford, there are appearances offorti

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