Then, the "Historical Background Information" section:
Here's a link to additional information on the Fort Stanwix Treaty Line: Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations
There is reference to "carrying place" in this document (you can search the document with that term and it comes up 7 times).
Here is another good link, with a map of the Treaty Line: Treaty of Fort Stanwix - Wikipedia
If you click on the map in the Wikipedia article, to enlarge it, notice the very straight portion of the treaty line that connects the West Branch of the Delaware River at Cookose (Deposit, NY) to the junction of the Susquehanna and Unadilla Rivers at "Old Unadilla" (Unadilla/Sidney, NY) on the map, and then the line continues north following the Unadilla River. Compare that line to this map:
The area where I spend most of my time exploring lies to both the east and west of the Treaty Line. There is no major river connecting the two "carrying places". So, I have to ask myself, is it no surprise that there is so much to find here, between the rivers?
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"The native tribes may or may not have had little or no impact on flora and fauna." A very definative statement, if you ask me.
In the draft scope of the Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Study for Marcellus Shale gas drilling, when talking about evaporation of volatile organic compounds from evaporation pits, they said "concerns regarding evaporation of pit contents do not arise in New York because precipitation exceeds evaporation". Yet, they've permitted a gas well in a floodplain in Lebanon, NY. They seem to like to have their cake and eat it, too!
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