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from about here. Some fifty years ago, however, bauds of ten or more 

 were frequently met with on their way to Fayetteville, armed with bows 

 and arrows, and ready for a reward to display their dexterity in hitting, 

 before it came down, a piece of coin tossed up in the air. 



Implements of war or the chase, broken pots, burned stones, where fires 

 had been made, and arrow-heads chipped from minerals, are met with in 

 all directions, in the bottoms along the river, and on the hills within a 

 mile or so of the numerous fishing-stands along the banks of the stream. 

 Between the mouth of Uharree and Island Creek, on the river-bottom, large 

 spaces are covered with chips and blocks of chert from which iMeces had 

 been taken. The lands being all made by successive deposits froni the 

 stream, the remains are found from the surface down to the old bed of 

 the river, to the depth of about four feet. Broken pots, of various ma- 

 terial and ornamentation, can be picked up. Among those sent to tlie 

 Institution will be found one heavy specimen of soapstone, a mineral 

 not found in this neighborhood. Some years ago, a whole pot was 

 washed up during a freshet, but the vessel, which was of about two gal- 

 lons' capacity, and gourd-shaped, unfortunately fell into the hands of 

 children, was broken, and only a few fragments saved. 



Immediately' below the month of Uharree Kiver, across the Pedee, 

 when the waters are low, there can yet be seen the greater part of a 

 stone ford, in the form of a zigzag rail-fence. In 1829 it was still entire, 

 and could be used for passing over the stream ; but the stones have 

 since been removed from both extremities for the building of fish-dams. 

 What remains, however, indicates the sound engineering notions of the 

 builders when they traced their path along a course the angles of which 

 would divide the force of the stream. 



No mounds nor vestiges of other permanent works are to be found. 

 What remains seems to have been left on a vast camping-ground during 

 the shad-fishing season, which in those days must have yielded a pro- 

 digious number of fish ; for, not fifty years back, more shad could yet 

 be caught than could ^be cured by the fishermen. Not so, however, now. 

 Game must also have been an attraction, for the wild approaches of the 

 river are, even now, much visited by hunting-parties of the white race. 



ANTIQUITIES OF FLORIDA. 



By Augustus Mitchell, M. D., of Saint Man/s, Georgia. 



While in the South during the winter of 1848, pursuing the study 

 and collecting specimens of ornithology, I was impelled by curiosity to 

 exauiine a mound of a moderate size situated on the southern portion of 

 Amelia Island, Florida, being kindly furnished with colored laborers, 

 and aided by Dr. li. Harrison. 



This mound was about 15 feet in height, and 30 feet in diameter at 



