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settlement, and before the growth of the present forest. In Plate III, 

 Fig. 1, c and d represent the relative position of two large pine trees 

 growing about two feet apart ; near the roots the distance is reduced to 

 one foot or less, making it impossible for an interment to have been made 

 between them at any time. I made a careful examination between and 

 beneath these trees, and at a depth of about 3 feet I found fragments 

 of pottery and bones. A portion of a human cranium lay rather under 

 the roots of the tree marked d, and I also obtained quite a large piece 

 of the inferior maxillary, all of which were sent properly labeled to the 

 Smithsonian Institution, together with ten crania and other objects of 

 interest obtained from this mound. 



6. MOUND NEAR DUNEDIN. 



Leaving Anclote Eiver and proceeding south into Saint Joseph's Bay, 

 we come to the little village of Dunedin. Half a mile north of this vil- 

 lage, and about 300 yards from the beach, is a large mound, with a wide 

 roadway leading to the top, evidently built for a residence. It is sit- 

 uated near some fresh- water ponds, and in the immediate vicinity are 

 several springs of good water. The face of the country is low and flat, 

 and the growth is the usual saw-palmetto and pine, though at no great 

 distance is a small hummock of good land, containing live-oak, &c. It 

 lies with its longest diameter to the northwest, and is 156 feet in length, 

 80 feet wide, exclusive of the roadway, and is 9 feet high. The road- 

 way commences 50 feet from the mound on the southwest side, and 

 makes a gentle rise to the top of the main structure. It is composed 

 entirely of sand. Explorations to a small extent had been made pre- 

 viously to my visit, but nothing valuable was found. 



I sunk a shaft in the center G feet in diameter, quite to the foundation, 

 and many smaller ones at various points along the crest, but found no 

 relics whatever. Several large trees grow upon the mound of similar 

 appearance to those in the surrounding forest. Plato IV gives a good 

 idea of the shape of this mound and the ditches from which the sand 

 of which it was built was obtained. 



7. BURIAL MOUND NEAR SAXE'S. 



About two miles south of Dunedin is the mouth of Stevens' Creek, 

 a small stream which rises about four or five miles inland. Due east 

 from the head of tide- water in this creek, on land belonging to Mr. John 

 Eussell, is a small burial mound, situated in a "rosemary scrub," 

 between two fresh-water ponds. 



The mound is circular, 40 feet in diameter and 3 feet high. It is com- 

 posed entirely of the snow-white sand peculiar to "rosemary scrubs." 



Explorations had been made previously to mine, and the few human 

 remains it contained thrown out upon the surface, where they had 

 crumbled into fragments. The remains found, I was told, consisted of 

 four or five human skeletons in a pretty good state of preservation. 



