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Professor Wyman mentions two shell heaps on the east bank of the 

 Saint John's and the right bank of Salt or Moccasin Creek (facing down 

 stream), near the union of the creek with the river. One of these he 

 calls Possum Bluff, but wrongly, as Possum Bluff is situated about 15 

 miles south of Orange mound, in a straight line on the east side of the 

 Saint John's. 



There is a mound near the mouth of Snake Creek, which connects 

 Salt Lake and Lufman's Lake. It is about one-half to three-quarters of 

 a mile up the creek. Mr. Coue informed me that he had made a cursory 

 examination of it, and found a lot of beads and a human skull with a 

 bullet-hole in the back. 



This completes the locations on the Saint John's and its tributaries 

 as far as my examinations extend. The Ocklawaha Pviver, I am informed, 

 contains a great many on its banks. Crystal River, on the Gulf coast, 

 is mentioned by Col. F. L. Dancy, formerly State engineer and geologist 

 of Florida, as having a remarkable mound on its bank, 4 miles fi-om its 



mouth.* 



Several mounds are reported 20 miles south of Saint Augustine, on 

 Peltier's Creek, on laud of David Carter, and shell-fields on Anastasia 

 Island, opposite Saint Augustine. 



I am also informed by a " Cow-boy," who had seen them, that there 

 are two or three mounds on the east bank of Eeedy Creek, in the north- 

 east corner of Polk County, between the creek and Lake Tohopekaliga, 

 and also remains of extensive earthworks, believed to be fortifications, 

 near the bay on the east side. 



I am informed there are mounds on two large islands in Lake Kis- 

 simee, southerly from the last. 



Mr. A. W. Conklin mentions in Forest and Stream of December 30, 

 1875, pp. 330 and 331, the following mounds and earthworks : 



One near the south bank of Boggy Creek, a sti-eam which flows to 

 the southeast and empties into the northwestern bend of Little Tohope- 

 kaliga, and another about 4 miles further south, near the edge of Fen- 

 nel Prab?ie. These mounds, he says, are very much alike, being about 

 50 feet in diameter and not over 10 feet high. Also a greater number on 

 Barton's or Parton's Island than in any other place. One in particu- 

 lar, which he calls Parton's mound, seems to be a fortification, with a 

 fosse, enciente, graded approaches, &c. 



A mile to the northwest of the above-described works, in the edge of 

 the hummock overtooking Pleasant Lake, are the remains of a very 

 large fortification, with walks nearly 20 feet in thickness and from 3 to 

 8 feet high. 



Other and somewhat indefinite remains are found on a hill, about a 

 mile to the southwest, across Pleasant Lake. One mile farther west, 

 on Pine Island, he says, there is another work, consisting of a mound 

 surrounded with a wall, and having what he thinks an artificial boat 



* Smithsonian Rei^ort, 1866, p. 357. 



