ETHNOLOGY. 



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Tbi,-.l, tl,e internal lan.iua of an oyster-sbe 1 cab mo «»»" 7™ f' 

 spangles, pierced with a hole in the center, anrt threaded with the flbnto 

 of the tendon of some animal, closely strung, and painted with red 



"'coal was freely diffused throngliout the mound, which contained but 

 litae polte'v. T-o stone hatchets were found, and a small stone ax, in 

 a'mion U> ihe large one described. This instrument bore evident marks 



"^ThL is one large mound on the eastern end of Amelia Island, Florida, 

 and two mounds on the central nortion of Cumberland Island, Georg , 

 likewise most of the islands on that c-'-M™- which could be obta« 

 large collections of materials for the advancement of ethnological 

 science. 



ANTmllllES or PIORIDA. 



CErfract from the journal of John Bartram, of Philadelphia. Loudou, 176!..] 



"About noon [25th January, 1700] we landed at Mount Boy al and 

 went to an Indiau tumulus, which was about 100 y^^J-J^'^^; 

 nearly round, and near 20 feet high. Found some bones sea te ed on i„. 

 It mu's be v^ry ancient, as live-oaks are growing upon it ^ fee ,n dmnv 

 eter What a prodigious multitude of Indians must have labored to 

 Se it to what height we cannot say, as it must 1;;--^ ^- -f ; 

 «„ch a number of years; and it is surprising where they biought the 

 Id r Tand how, as they had nothing but baskets or bow s to carry 

 it in There seems to be a little hollow near the adjacent level on one 

 tee' thou' h not likely to raise such a tumulus the fiftieth part of wha 

 L • but directly north from the tumulus is a fine straight aveuue about 

 «« y'ards broad,!aU the surface of which has been taken «« »;! 'hrown 

 ouLh side, which makes a bank of about a rood wide -> ^f««; 

 more or less as the unevenness of the ground required, tor he a^ enuc 

 is as level as a floor from bank to bank, and continues so for about three- 

 uarterrof a mile to a pond of about one hundred yards broad and one 

 1 n ired and fifty long, north and south, seemed to be an oblong square, 

 n itrbanks four feet perpendicular, gradually sloping every way to the 

 tn the depth of wUch we could not say, but do not imagine it deep, as 

 he A'ass grows all over it; by its regularity it seems to be artil^cial ; if o, 

 lerhCs the sand was carried from hence to raise the tumnUis, as the 

 oiTeTeetly aces the other at each end of the avenue. On the south 

 sde of the tumulus I found a very large rattlesnake sunniug himself; 

 Isuin ose this to be his winter-quarters. Here had formerly been alarge 

 nS town. I suppose there are fifty acres of planting ground cleai^d, 

 and S ing so 1 a good part of which is mixed with small shells; 

 no dolt this large tumulus was their burying-place or sepulcher. 

 Whether the Florito Indians buried the bones after the flesh was rotted 

 off them, as the present southern Indians do, I cannot say. 



