. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. some, butif the climber enjoys the picturesque features of nature he willbe well paid for his labor. About one hundred feet belowthe precipice, at one side of the gorge, is a very large boulderwhich geologists will probably say was deposited where it nowrests during the glacial period. Over this boulder and onthe cliffs that constitute the rocky bank of the stream, honey-suckles are growing, the profusion of the many-pointed purpleflowers adding a charming bit of color to the gray rocks thatseem to be incapable of affording the requisite nouri
. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. some, butif the climber enjoys the picturesque features of nature he willbe well paid for his labor. About one hundred feet belowthe precipice, at one side of the gorge, is a very large boulderwhich geologists will probably say was deposited where it nowrests during the glacial period. Over this boulder and onthe cliffs that constitute the rocky bank of the stream, honey-suckles are growing, the profusion of the many-pointed purpleflowers adding a charming bit of color to the gray rocks thatseem to be incapable of affording the requisite nourishment tothis hardy climber. The branch of the stream from the east is broken by manycascades, and the banks of the ravine are quite abrupt, but atone point a steep ridge or spur, sometimes called a hogsback, is seen, with a well-worn path from creek to acclivity would be very difficult if it were not for treesand saplings to assist the climber along its narrow ridge. Myprinciple object in visiting this ravine was to find, if ADRIUTHA FALLS, CRANESVILLE 357 r M t, N tv ^ ,1 I -TOR ^£^°^ ° \ Old Indian Names and Sites .359 some evidence of Indian occupation, I had been told by-some of the residents on the top of Svvarts Hill that therewere a number of holes or depressions in the ground along theravine that were objects of interest on account of the mys-tery surrounding them, and their evident ancient origin. Ithad been suggested that they had probably been used as cornpits by the aborigines. A thorough search along the easternbank failed to reveal them, but ashes and charcoal were foundfive or six inches under the earth on the eastern brink of theravine at the point where the path or trail on the hogsback reached its summit. Unexpectedly, I found the holes near the Adriutha Falls,on the western bank, but in such numbers that they couldhardly have been used as corn-pits. Instead of four for fiveholes, I found fifteen near the western slope of the ravine,
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