. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . n the township of Tiny, page of the usual kinds have been found, and also a few others lesscommon, among which was a discoidal stone measuring an inch andthree-fourths in diameter and five eighths thick, slightly pitted nearthe middle on each side. This was presented by Mr. Frazer to theProvincial Museum, and is No. 16,702 in the archaeological Frazer h
. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . n the township of Tiny, page of the usual kinds have been found, and also a few others lesscommon, among which was a discoidal stone measuring an inch andthree-fourths in diameter and five eighths thick, slightly pitted nearthe middle on each side. This was presented by Mr. Frazer to theProvincial Museum, and is No. 16,702 in the archaeological Frazer has befriended the science of archaeology in other way-,more especially by the presentation to the museum of a sword, dated1619, also found in this neighborhood. The position of this village 13 doubtless indicates the direction taken by the trail that led westwardfrom Ste. Marie. 2. Ste. Marie on the Wye. The ruins of Ste. Marie, the fortified mission built by theJesuits in 1639 and occupied by them for ten years, may be seen onlot 16, concession 3. It was a stone fort and is the most noteworthy-object of historic interest in Huronia, though in its present crumbledcondition it can be called only a ruin of a PLAN OF STE. MARIE ON THE WYE. By the Rev. Geo. FIallejj (in 1852). While preparing these notes, I was favored by Mr. Edgar Hallen,of Orillia, with the u>e of a plan of Ste. Marie made in 1852 by hisfather, the late Rev. Geo. Hallen. With his permission the annexed en-graving has been made—a special favor that will be of much vralue tostudents of history generally, as the present condition of the fortscarcely admits of the making of a definite sketch. Although thesmall tracing of the fort in Father Martins Montreal edition of Bress-anis Relation was copied from this plan of Mr. Hallens, it lacks anumber of details oiven in the original sketch. 14 The author of the sketch wrote a note thereon that is worthy ofour attention: In the (easterly) Bastion, is an instance
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