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Vermont's Historical Society have been excavating under Mr Brooks formerly connected with your museum, but as they are sticking to sites along the shores of Lake Champlain I do not think they will make many new discoveries We have found but one burial in over thirty years of research and that one was so old and so nearly the color of the soil, it would not photograph and all we could save were a few teeth and a few fragments of skull

It was flexed and undoubtedly a shallow burial I have found also the round pole wigwam type of house where the post molds were fairly plain and the floor still hard enough to sweep off the sand that had accumulated over it.

I believe that these sites were some of the earliest and though they show signs of later occupation I can not find any thing Iriquois, neither can I find any sign of contact with the white man.

Hope this interests you and would like to hear from you, whether you think I am right in dating this site among the prehistoric.

Yours very truly
P. H. Benford
106 Broadway
Whitehall N.Y.

P.S. I was formerly of Fair Haven Vt