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plowing. Near Murder Creek, in this county, and not over half a mile 

 from the Clinton road, exists a stone tumulus said to be of immense 

 size, but never visited bj' the author. Near Little Eiver, and below Pier- 

 sou's mOl, and on the opposite side, are several stone tumuli, and another 

 group east of these. They are within a few feet of the conical group, and 

 not more than 100 yards apart. There is a mound near Dr. Jorrette's dwel- 

 lling, near the opposite bank of the Oconee Eiver, from which was dug a 

 bird-shaped calumet, and human bones also were found. There is a rock 

 mound on the plantation of Eobert M. Grimes, near the line of Han- 

 cock and Greene counties, also an earth mound about 8 feet high and 

 30 feet in diameter, west of the rock tumulus, and near the Oconee River, 

 in Greene Connty, situated in the bottom land. Near Lawrence's Ferry, 

 and between Little's Ferry road and Oconee River, is a mound supposed 

 to be bird-shaped, inclosed in a circle. Upon the plantation of Dr. 

 White, Hancock County, are mounds of earth, near which runs a ditch. * 

 Various other small mounds and shell-heaps are scattered over this 

 county. 



PREHISTORIC REMAINS IN FLORIDA. 

 By J. Francis Le Baron, U. 8. Engineer. 



I arrived in Fernandina, Fla., February 26, 1877, accompanied by an 

 assistant. This place seemed to have been a campiug or living place 

 of prehistoric man, for there was to be seen here the remains of a some- 

 what extended kjokkenmodding, on the north side of the town. 



I next went to Jacksonville, and remained there until July 14. 

 While there I made the acquaintance of the principal archaeologists of 

 the place, and from them obtained many valuable notes and sugges- 

 tions. 



Mr. A. A. Knight, esq., informed me of the location of the mound in T. 

 2 S., R. 27 E., and the shell-heaps or kjokkenmoddings at the mouth 

 of the Saint John's River, in T. 1 S., R. 29 E., which I have since visited. 

 Those on the north side of the river on Fort George Island are men- 

 tioned by S. P. Mayberry in the Smithsonian Annual Report for 1877, 

 p. 305, and by a writer in Harper's Monthly for November, 1878, in an 

 article entitled the '' Sea Islands." 



W. W. Dewhurst, C. E., postmaster at Saint Augustine, referred me 

 to the mounds in T. 3 S., R. 26 E., and T. 4 S., R. 26 E., two miles east of 

 Mandarin. 



Leaving Jacksonville on the 14th of July, 1877, we sailed up the river 

 in a two-masted sail-boat and discovered our first mound one mile south 

 of Picolata, on the east bank, in a high hammock. It is of sand, about 

 25 feet in diameter at the base, and 8 feet high, and situated about 50 feet 

 from the river. We did not open it, and it showed no signs of ever hav- 



* Aniiquitiea of Southern Triies, C. C. Jones, jr., p. 144. 



