Gushing,] 4ib |Xov. 6, 



DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF PLATES XXV-XXXV. 



WITH EXPLANATIONS OF FIGURES, 

 AND TEXT REFERENCES. 



Plate XXV. 



The outline map, shown on Plate XXV, is reproduced from the latest 

 Government Hydrographic Surveys, and indicates the location of Tar- 

 pon Springs, — the northernmost point on the Gulf coast of Florida (see 

 pp. 351 to 354, inclusive), explored by the Pepper-Hearst expedition of 

 1896 ; also the location of Key Marco and of the contiguous archipelago 

 of the Ten Thousand Islands, — which probably contains not fewer than 

 fifteen hundred ancient key-dweller settlements or artificial shell islets. 



It is designed especially to illustrate the relation (discussed on pp. 

 408, 409 and 410 in the text) of the Currents of the Caribbean Sea 

 to the principal island clusters or settlements of the ancient key- 

 builders, as probably bearing, to some extent on their remote origin. 

 The series of arrows represented as leading past the gulf of Maracaibo, 

 in South America, thence through the strait between Yucatan and west- 

 ern Cuba, and thence in turn, to the keys and islands of southwestern 

 Florida, defines the current, which is regarded as having been influen- 

 tial in peopling these areas of the keys with wanderers — probably of 

 Arawak extraction, via the region of the Orinoco in South America. 



Again, the series of arrows represented as passing northwardly along 

 the outer or Atlantic side of both the Lesser and Greater Antilles, and 

 thence to the Lucayo or Bahama Islands, defines the current w^hich is 

 regarded as the possible line of comparatively recent Caribbean deriva- 

 tion, as evidenced by various art remains in eastern Florida and 

 Georgia, which are referred to, in the footnote on page 410, as discov- 

 ered by Prof. Wm. H. Holmes. 



