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BRITISH MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
On this map, a short distance east of the portage between the Mohawk River and Wood Creek, at Fort Stanwix, there appears a loop in the Mohawk River and next to that loop is written: "the Neck digged through in 1730."
A second British map, dated circa 17562 and almost identical to the first, records the same detail, this time labelled "the Neck Diged through in 1730." On this latter version, the land area contained within the loop is shaded to emphasize the feature.
The configuration of this feature is unmatched anywhere else on the Mohawk during the eighteenth century on any maps that have yet come to light. It appears as a uniform southward trending loop of the river with a connecting channel across the narrow neck of the meander, apparently cut through intentionally by artificial means.Top
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