Smith thus locates their town: “The Sasquesahannocks inhabit vpon the cheefe spring of these foure branches of the Bayes head, one day’s journey higher than our barge could passe for rocks,” vol. I, p. 182. Campanius thus describes their town, which he represents as twelve miles from New Sweden: “They live on a high mountain, very steep and difficult to climb; there they have a fort or square building, surrounded with palisades. There they have guns and small iron cannon, with which they shoot and defend themselves, and take with them when they go to war.”—_Campanius’s Nye Sverige_, p. 181; Du Ponceau’s translation, p. 158. A view of a Sasquesahannock town is given in _Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld_ (1671), p. 136, based evidently on Smith. De Lisle’s Map, dated June, 1718, lays down Canoge, Fort des Indiens Andastés ou Susquehanocs at about 40° N.; but I find the name nowhere else. _Note_ 52, _page_ 77. Scalping was practiced by the Scythians. (_Herodotus_, book IV, and in the second book of _Macchabees_, VII, 4, 7). Antiochus is said to have caused two of the seven Macchabee brothers to be scalped. “The skin of the head with the hairs being drawn off.” The torture of prisoners as here described originated with the Iroquois, and spread to nearly all the North American tribes. It was this that led the Algonquins to give the Iroquois tribes the names Magoué, Nadoué or Nottaway, which signified cruel. _Lafitau, Moeurs des Sauvages_, II, p. 287. _Note_ 53, _page_ 78. The remarks here as to religion are vague. The Iroquois and Hurons recognized Aireskoi or Agreskoe, as the great deity, styling him also Teharonhiawagon. As to the Hurons, see _Sagard, Histoire du Canada_, p. 485. The sacrifice of a child, as noted by Alsop, was unknown in the other tribes of this race, and is not mentioned by Campanius in regard to this one. {124} _Note_ 54, _page_ 78. The priests were the medicine men in all probability; no author mentioning any class that can be regarded properly as priests. _Note_ 55, _page_ 78. The burial rites here described resemble those of the Iroquois (_Lafitau, Moeurs des Sauvages_, II, pp. 389, 407) and of the Hurons, as described by Sagard (_Histoire du Canada_, p. 702) in the manner of placing the dead body in a sitting posture; but there it was wrapped in furs, encased in bark and set upon a scaffold till the feast of the dead. _Note_ 56, _page_ 79. Sagard, in his _Huron Dictionary_, gives village, _andata_; he is in the fort or village, _andatagon_; which is equivalent to _Connadago_, _nd_ and _nn_ being frequently used for each other. _Note_ 57, _page_ 80. For the condition of the women in a kindred tribe, compare _Sagard, Histoire du Canada_, p. 272; _Grand Voyage_, p. 130; _Perrot, Moeurs et Coustumes des Sauvages_, p. 30. _Note_ 58, _page_ 80.