Indeed all our native tribes who have occupied the borders of the great lakes, have been very ingenious in converting to the uses of superstition, masses of perforated rock or boulder stones, as have been fretted by the action of water into a variety of shapes or forms.

Indian burying grounds are to be found in various parts of this town, one is situated on the north side of the road leading from Boutonville to Cross River, soon after passing the Wepuc stream, while another is located on the north side of the road west of the bridge which crosses the same stream, leading from South Salem to Cross River.

Lewisborough includes seven miles in length of the south end of a tract of land called the Oblong. This territory was a strip of one mile three quarters and twenty rods wide, and nearly sixty-two miles long, formed by the running of a line parallel with Hudson's River, and twenty miles distant therefrom, to the south line of Massachusetts. The controversy between the two colonies of New York and Connecticut, concerning it, lasted nearly a century, during which time the disputed

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ground afforded a sort of sanctuary for the most desperate kind of outlaws and robbers.

The commissioners appointed for settling the lines, assembled at Greenwich, April 29th, 1725, when they came to the following agreement as to the means of ascertaining the lines, viz.: -- "They are the westernmost line, called eight miles, the line running east north-east, thirteen miles and sixty-four rods from the eight mile line, the line called parallel with the Hudson's River, and twenty miles from it, extending from the end of the line thirteen miles and sixty-four rods northward to Massachusetts line; the parallel line was in t~wo lines, having one angle in it.