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One in section 33, same township ; one in section 26, ditto ; two on 

 the land of Mr. Vincent Leonardi, near Pinellos Post Office, and half a 

 mile from the Salt Lake; and two on the extreme point one mile south 

 of the large mound at Bethel's Camp. 



The one in section 26 is the largest and highest, being perhaps 250 

 feet in diameter and 7 feet high. The neighborhood school house stands 

 upon it. The others are similar in dimensions to the one described. 



15. MOUNDS AT PAPY'S BAYOU. 



These mounds are situated on a narrow peninsula on the north side 

 of Papy's Bayou, on Old Tampa Bay. The place is known as Pillan's 

 Hummock, and had been settled at some time in the past, but I pre- 

 sume the settlers fled before invading hosts of mosquitoes and sand-flies. 

 A few tumble-down houses in a small clearing, surrounded by strag- 

 gling orange and lemon trees will serve as a starting point to any one 

 seeking the mound. From these " improvements " a due north course 

 will bring one into the neighborhood of this rather singular structure. 



It is an oval-shaped mound, about 5 feet high, situated on a low ridge 

 in a very dense hummock. For 100 feet a ditch 2 feet deep runs in the 

 direction of its longer diameter. At this point the structure forks, and 

 two embankments 5 feet high continue for 50 feet, making the entire 

 length of the mound 150 feet. The shorter diameter is 75 feet in the 

 center, and at the southern end it is 00 feet w ide. The central trench 

 is 15 feet in width, and from the southern end traces of a ditch or ancient 

 road may be followed several hundred yards into the hummock. The 

 embankments forming the forks are 20 feet wide where they leave the 

 main structure, gradually narrowing down to 10 feet at the ends. Fig. 

 1, Plate VI, represents a ground plan of the mound, A being the central 

 depression, and B, B, the higher portions. C represents the trail or 

 roadway leading to the mound. Fig. 2 is a section across the end, 

 looking down the ditch. 



Excavations revealed human bones in every portion of the mound, 

 but by far the larger part occupied the central trench. They were in a 

 bad state of preservation, and 1 succeeded in getting out only three 

 sufficiently sound to bear transportation, after thorough saturation with 

 boiled oil. I also found one whole bowl, but on my taking it out the 

 bottom crumbled into powder, and the rim broke into several pieces; 

 enough was preserved, however, to make restoration possible. 



The mode of burial was precisely the same as thai described minutely 

 in the history of the Ormond mound, and represented in Fig. 2, Plate 

 III, which renders repetition unnecessary. 



The growth on the mound consisted of small oaks, and was precisely 

 similar to that around it. It lay with its longer diameter toward the 

 north. 



Three or four hundred yards west of this is another mound, composed 

 of alternate layers of sand and shell, 150 feet in length, by 15 in width, 



