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78 (near Auburn, New York). Keeping north of Seneca and Cayuga lakes, the trail bore straight west into the country of the famed Senecas who kept well the western door of the "Long House," and then turned slightly north to the watershed between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario which it pursued to the Niagara river. The main villages passed in the Seneca country were Canadasegy (Canandaigua, New York), Canadaragey (near Batavia), Chenufsio and Canawagus.

Some of the trails of the Seneca country have been traced by Mr. George H. Harris, who also describes the great Iroquois trail and has interesting words on Indian trails in general:

"While the march of civilization had advanced beyond the Genesee to the north and west, the hunting-grounds of the Senecas were still in their primitive state, and the cycle of a century is not yet complete [1884] since the white man came into actual possession of the land and became ac-