on the 4th of October, he says, " was in the town of Shawan gunk, on the east bank of the Shawangunk kil, and twentyHe adds " Whatever doubts eight miles from Kingston." there may be as to the Kerhonkson village, or the Old fort, there can be none a to that situated on the Shawangunk. :

From the first settlement of the country the place has been The New Fort. The village which was found aban

called

doned on the 4th of October, was in the vicinity of Burlingham. An Indian burial ground marks the spot, and a path led from

HUDSON RIPER INDIANS.

thence to the hunting house at Wurtsboro."

The site of the

New fort, and the trails are described as follows " The mouth of the

:

miles away, and Shawangunk most of that distance is occupied by fine and fertile lowlands. From the water rises an abrupt of formation, kil is six

declivity,

irregular

may be, an

elevation of 75. or 80 feet, and then spreading out into a beautiful sandy plateau of twenty (jr. thirty The hill side is covered with the original forest, and acres.

reaching,

it

broken up into what seem to be artificial mounds. On the edge of the plain overlooking the creek, the fort was situated, and the wigwams a little distance below. To the north, along the kil,

flat of moderate dimensions but on the oppo some of the finest lowlands in Ulster county. Here

extends a

site side are