. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. antsounds seem near in the hollow air. From farin the upper sky comes the strange warningvoice of their leader, startling and clear, guid-ing his brood in their wedge-like flight fromthe icy fields of Canada, high above the watersof Lake Erie and Chautauqua, in unerringcourse to the tepid lakes and rushy streams ofwarmer climes. Responsive to these warningsigns, winter comes with all his blusteringcrew of chills and snows, freezing winds andpinching frosts, and at last the keen blasts ofDecember howl him a fierce welcome to hisancient a
. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. antsounds seem near in the hollow air. From farin the upper sky comes the strange warningvoice of their leader, startling and clear, guid-ing his brood in their wedge-like flight fromthe icy fields of Canada, high above the watersof Lake Erie and Chautauqua, in unerringcourse to the tepid lakes and rushy streams ofwarmer climes. Responsive to these warningsigns, winter comes with all his blusteringcrew of chills and snows, freezing winds andpinching frosts, and at last the keen blasts ofDecember howl him a fierce welcome to hisancient and favorite domain among the whiten-ing hills of Old Chautauqua. CHAPTER II. The Mound Builders. The pioneer of Chautauqua county found it covery of unmistakable evidences of its hav- an unbroken wilderness; yet often when ex- ing been anciently inhabited by a numerous ploring its silent depths, where forest shadows people. Crowning the brows of hills that were hung deepest, they were startled at the dis- flanked by deep ravines, along the shores of its. DIAN MOUNDS IX CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY THE MOUND BUILDERS lakes and streams, in its valleys at numerouspoints, were the plain traces of their indus-try—earthworks or fortifications, mostly circu-lar; pits bearing marks of use by fire; ancienthighways and mounds in which lay buriedmouldering skeletons; and later, where forestshad given place to cultivated fields, the spadeand plow in the springtime made strange reve-lations of rude implements of war and peace,and oftentimes of the crumbling relics of anancient burial place. At first these monumentswere believed to be of European origin; andpatient research was made among early rec-ords for an account of events happening uponthe Eastern continent, a little prior to andabout the time of the discovery of America,that would afford an explanation of their exist-ence. But the great age of the forest treesgrowing above them, and other marks of an-tiquity, demonstrated this belief to be un-
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