782 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



attack of wild beasts aud reptiles, of which the black bear and panther, 

 and poisonous snakes were the most dangerous. It also gave them 

 greater immunity from the mosquitoes, and enabled them to enjoy the 

 cooling sea breezes in summer. For the same reasons the first settlers 

 have generally chosen these places for their own residence. 



A little less than half a mile southerly, on the lagoon shore, same 

 side, is another large kjokkenmodding, and there is a house ui^on this 

 also, belonging to Mr. Frank Sam's, of Xe w Smyrna. This heap is nearly 

 as large as the one at Oak Hill. 



Continuing south just a mile, by the west shore of the Mosquito La- 

 goon, we come to Swift's wharf, built several years ago for the purpose 

 of shipping live-oak lumber. On the shore, at the north side of this 

 wharf, is a large mound and shell heap. Captain Swift's headquarters 

 and office is located upon it. This place is in sec. 9, T. 19 S., E. 35 E., 

 and the two previously described are situated in Sec. 5, same township 

 and range. 



Continuing south now, we come to the " Ross Hummock," on same 

 side of lagoon and near Mr. McCarty. Here we find a large sand burial 

 mound, about 50 yards from the west bank of the lagoon, in what was 

 a wild orange grove, but had been grafted and cleared up at the time of 

 my visit in February, 1878. There is a small brook between it and the 

 shore, close to the mound and a deep artificial ditch with running water 

 about 100 feet to the south. This last is believed to be the work of Dr. 

 Turnbull's colonists at the time of the English possession of Florida. 

 The mound, as I have stated, is of sand, with very precipitous sides. 

 This has apparently never been opened. 



Two and a half miles north of the Haulover Canal, near Butler Camp- 

 bell's, there is said to be a burial mound in the scrub, about 200 or 300 

 yards from the west shore of the lagoon. 



Passing through the aforesaid canal and going south about half a 

 mile we come to a small sand burial mound on land of Charles H. Nau- 

 man, formerly Lisbon Futch. It is about 155 yards from the east bank 

 of the Indian River. I made a partial examination of this mound in 

 1869, and described it in Rod and Gun, November 4, 1876. We found 

 there only portions of skeletons and broken pottery. Subsequent ex- 

 plorers have opened a trench through the mound down to the original 

 surface of the ground. They found nothing worthy of note except a 

 large oval coquina stone, about 2^ feet in transverse and 14 inches in 

 conjugate diameter. Around the shortest medial circumference a groove 

 was cut about 2 inches deep, as if for the fastening of a rope. There 

 were no other marks upon it, but it had evidently been rounded and 

 brought to shape by the hand of man. This stone was left lying at the 

 base of the mound by the discoverers, where I saw it in 1878. I am 

 informed by Mr. Nauman, whose house is only about 200 feet east of the 

 mound, that the stone was found in the exact center of the mound at 

 the bottom. It is difficult to determine its use. It could have been 

 used as an anchor for a large canoe or for fastening a guy-rope. 



