778 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



harbor. In the interior of the island, which is 2 or 3 miles in diameter, 

 other mounds are found which do not difier materiallj' from the one at 

 Boggy Creek. In addition to these larger remains, the main island has 

 on its surface some two or three hundred smaller mounds, usually about 

 30 feet in diameter, and 2 or 3 feet in height. He considers these dwell- 

 ing places. 



Four miles south of Pine Island is a work similar to the one at Pleas- 

 ant Lake. Along the eastern side of Lake Tohopekaliga are a number 

 of small mounds, and at the i^laceof Charles McQuaid, on Lake Cypress, 

 are two of the ordinary round-topped mounds. Twenty miles south- 

 east of Lake Kissimee is another large mound. It is about 35 feet 

 high, 40 yards in diameter, built of sand, with a graded approach, and 

 covert way. About a dozen miles southeast of this mound, which is 

 called the Hope mound, in the neighborhood of old Fort Drum, are two 

 other mounds similar to it. 



All down the Kissimee Eiver mounds are to be found, of which the 

 largest and most important is at Daughtery's, on the west side of the 

 river, 4 miles northwest of Fort Bassenger, on Istokpoga Island, at the 

 northeastern extremity. Here we have again the graded approach, a 

 covert way, and circular bastion. One hundred yards to the west is an 

 earthwork resembling a redoubt. Eighteen miles to the southwest of 

 this mound, in the marsh which bounds the island, is a part of a wall, 

 which is a mile in length. At the southeastern extremity of Little Toho- 

 pekaliga Lake is a work similar to theParton mound alreadj^ described. 



Along the Kissimee River are embankments apparently raised by 

 the hand of man, running for long distances in a straight line. He says 

 they were apparently constructed for dikes. In the Parton mound, on 

 the Little Tohopekaliga Lake, John Evans, ex-sheriff of Queen's County, 

 exhumed fifty-four skulls which had been buried close together, forming 

 a circle. 



At McQuaid's, mound on Lake Cypress, apiece of gold, inscribed with 

 characters in some unknown tongue, was found. It was hammered, not 

 coined, and sold for $16. 



The "Hope mound," near old Fort Drum, has not been disturbed, and 

 offers with others near it a fine field for the antiquarian. The articles 

 taken from the Danghtery mound are all modern, consisting of an im- 

 mense variety of beads, some small as a pin's head and others an inch in 

 length, of various colors, and some of them gilded — glass ear-drops, 

 and a piece of silver about 3 inches in diameter and about equal in 

 thickness to a silver half dollar ; two steel axes, each over 10 inches in 

 length, one 4J and the other 5i inches on the blade. On the sides of 

 the ax are several markings made with a cold chisel. All these articles 

 were found near^the surface. 



Mention -is also made of a remarkable work on the Caloosahatchee 

 Eiver, which appears to be a canal. On the west side of Lake Okee- 

 chobee, near Fort Center, just above the mouth of the Trathloi)opka- 



