supposed to
be left here by the party who destroyed the corn, &c.

Sept. 26.--Marched for 8-1/2 miles through the Great Swamp.

Sept. 27.--Marched for 17 miles, 15 of which was through the above
swamp. Most part of the way, they had to steer by the sun, there not
being the least semblance of a road or path. A man of this party died
suddenly.

Sept. 28.--Marched for one mile and crossed the outlet (inlet) of
Caiuga Lake, and came upon ground occupied by the army on the night of
the 31st of August, from there to Kanawaholee,[154] where they joined
the main body of Sullivan's army.

FOOTNOTES:

[140] SCAWYACE or _Long Falls_, an important Indian town of eighteen
houses, located on the north bank of Seneca river at present site of
Waterloo, in Seneca County. It was partially destroyed on August 8,
during the advance of the army by a party of volunteers under Colonel
Harper. George Grant mentions the fact of "several fish ponds
abounding opposite the town." These were circular enclosures of stone
from thirty to forty feet in diameter, built up on the rocky bed of
the stream, where the water was neither very deep or rapid, so
constructed as to permit the water to pass through, but to retain the
fish.

[141] GEWAUGA, a small hamlet on the present site of Union Springs in
the town of Springport, on the east side of Cayuga lake.

[142] CHOHARO.--This was the Tichero or St. Stephen of the Jesuit
Relations, said to signify _the place of rushes_, located at the foot
of Cayuga lake on the east side, at the exact point where the bridge
of the Middle Turnpike left the east shore. The trail across the marsh
followed the north bank of an ancient channel of the Seneca river,
which at an early day took that course. The turnpike afterward
followed substantially the line of the trail and crossed the present
line of the Cayuga and Seneca canal three times between Mud Lock and
the old Demont tavern on the opposite side of the marsh. The salt
springs mentioned by Father Raffeix in 1672, were on the west side of
the marsh about half a mile north of the N.Y.C. Rail Road bridge, and
on the bank of the ancient river channel.

[143] CAYUGA CASTLE, an Indian town containing fifteen very large
houses of squared logs, located on the south line of the town of
Springport in Cayuga County, on the north bank of Great Gully brook,
and from one to two miles from the lake.

[144] UPPER CAYUGA, an Indian town of fourteen very large houses
loca