. 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 . ing a space of about five acres. In company with A. C. Osborne, of Penetanguishene, on Sept. 2nd,1898, I visited this site, its existence having been called to my atten-tion a few days before by Geo. E. Laidlaw, of Balsam Lake. Itssituation is on a kind of high lake terrace or plateau, overlookingGeorgian Bay, with Beck with Island just opposite. The land hadbeen cleared about
. 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 . ing a space of about five acres. In company with A. C. Osborne, of Penetanguishene, on Sept. 2nd,1898, I visited this site, its existence having been called to my atten-tion a few days before by Geo. E. Laidlaw, of Balsam Lake. Itssituation is on a kind of high lake terrace or plateau, overlookingGeorgian Bay, with Beck with Island just opposite. The land hadbeen cleared about four years previous to our visit, and it was duringthis operation that the first evidences of Huron occupation had These consisted in the usual ash-beds containing pottery 11 fragments in abundance and other relics common to such sites. directed us to two small pits or sink-holes along the topof a small ridge in the lower ground between the hill and the made excavations in both but found nothing in them to indicatewhether their origin was human or not. Upon this site and on some farms in its neighborhood, many irontomahawks of early French pattern have been found. The triple.
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