. 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 . 28 Huron corn patches, mentioned so frequently in these notes, I haveobserved that Indian corn at the present day matures with greatrapidity on the fine sandy loam of this Various other sites occur in the immediate neighborhood of theBannister farm, but just beyond the boundaries ofTay township. It is not our intention, therefore,to take notice of them here. But the
. 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 . 28 Huron corn patches, mentioned so frequently in these notes, I haveobserved that Indian corn at the present day matures with greatrapidity on the fine sandy loam of this Various other sites occur in the immediate neighborhood of theBannister farm, but just beyond the boundaries ofTay township. It is not our intention, therefore,to take notice of them here. But the occurrenceof some camps where many interesting relics havebeen found may be mentioned in passing. Theseare on lot 76, concession 1, Tiny, the farm formerlyoccupied by the Bell family. A finely carved pipe,having a representation of what was probablyintended for a bear, was among the relics found. 20. South-easterly from the mouth of Hogg River, and standing outby itself, is a tract of high ground on which some village sites are metwith, undoubtedly Huron in their origin. One of these is on the westhalf of lot 11, concession 7, occupied by Joseph Belfry. On this farm,and near the site now under consideration, there is a piece of land whereno large trees had grown in the forest that formerly covered the place—in fact, just such a bare patch as we found at No. 8. Some personssupposed that thi
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