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Show 3 the of. course,. become enemies.; and. the rapi-tlitl'.:with. whUh' the alarmed bav.e Latter-day. 'Saints were 'occupying the country nay own 'po's-sessions, older, inhabitant •. relat1._ to. the safety· or .their and their own future welfare in the country. might, .. . .. '.:-* ' Notes * its beautiful location, and should. be. fertile, and. excellent for it may' hao·been· stony., be tore The village' 01' Fayetto has soU, unless-depleted'J a agricultural crops, although. It is 31 tuat· between the two it. was ".cieal"ed." for use. .,,; . ":;',":'. ; of ot."o long and .narrow b.t.>ciies. of water .in group· largest western'" New York·ealled. .tb(t-· tI.F.imgti': ,bteaue. of their about 35-40 ·sha.pe. ·These· two' 'lakes.-Caga ·and ·Sea.e:eara ':and p 2:-4.mUea, miles- in ·length.;:.·:ld.th ld.dtbJitp_ehapL ....Are :6Jld!%h.3hore of.SlDQre···thAlk600 r"t, reaeh dep.th;: The two lakes ravine-.&h.:' 4"plT:1Jld.a.".h,..d&lWi; piQ.turesGl_\l. .. .. . ... . .. ' ; l&yol. or elevation above··tne· oeean- Seea is theigh&r 'of·the two; and the,;o-root Seneca Falls may indicate that difference, or ·more., between their The.. basins-of the lakes. were.! gouged n,:glacial surfaces. their action in the:·anc.ientIee Ages;.. and. are, th.8'wider. in with' .perhapa tht)'"2o.uthward' nrth ern =-parts, +: and taperlng.,to· tho. more ·prettq-:-:;sc.en&ry in the, lovely, "glenstl there formed'. and some two 'Pa7fJtte is between: wider .part.e of the .lake.s;. times that distance three or two or three ·-miJ.,es ·WE)st,,'ot Cayuga and their make dailY trips rro Seneca, on which steamboats now are·;na:, at··,-t-he.': same: .. .. . from nd to end.of the lake also has an This .region.,· with· its very eeerd,c a t traction., modern in. -iihitemencame times, interesting' histo-cy" .. When the the warlike Iro i t ,with the Mohawk Va11e7, was the.· home of o matriarchal gpv Indians, -with. their remarkable form its time, which was exeellent.civilizatlon.for ent, and an their intox with mostly the .. . ·- .. .. qois incoming. whites, demoralized-·:by iea t1ng liquors.. organization. ot the .Church· of' Jesus ·ri.st of. Latter.-day.,.Saint.s, the aborigines if not all of them in the.region·had been quelled; and most By . the' time' or the· to the westward. or into Canada. but The "Hill Cumorahu, still holding its Nephite name,is At and in the neighbora few miles northwest of Lake s.eneca. of. the· Book of Momon two, the, people.s great. hood ot this hill,'. ·eom·· e£· .t,·!most s:_;::\.; histC'I7---the Jaredites am the Nephit.-=,,.U.<1 foreed to move on - R:. histoJ.7·,.:in; which,;<8;ccog sanguina-ry ·righting in-,.th$·.wo!ld millions',)'6f .peop.l,e were the Et-her, of Prophet ·-to the record un-buried. of the dead were left slain and -many of ··the bodies· we may note terrible internecine war, At one time during this the"waters to came -unttl· they tha.t the aI'lD7 of Cbriantumr-fled to exceed or is large, of liancum which" by interpretation, for the made ,armi-as, ancar-..pment .both. On' the seaehore her&' all". the, next day,--the pursuing lIt the desperate fighting night ·to "S .place.'. ·called Ogath southward· and fled army was bested, <roriantumr pursued until theY' came for encampment. The army of Hill is identical -with' "jJe" Nephite to the Hill Ramah ,(Ramah tents. Ogath hill.theY' pitched their • ., - .. . Cumorab); and by·this the site of the present Fayette---at any rate, may· have included location nearly two 'millen far from the Fayette - it was not niums' later westward nea Seneca Lake to the OR IT MAY HAVE BEN across shorter Finger Lakes. some of those |
