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The Coast Survey have a trigonometrical station and a stone post on 

 top This mound is hig-h and steep, and composed of oyster shells and 

 conchs. It is about 100 feet in diameter, and 20 or 25 feet high, with 

 a steep bluff on the eastern side, where it fronts on a small cove. This 

 cove contains the best oysters on the east coast. A wagon road has 

 been built around the eastern face and a causeway across the marsh m 

 the rear to the main land, about 100 yards, where there is a large wild 

 orano-e grove which has been budded with sweet stock. 



Nearly due east from this shell heap, on the ocean beach ridge, is the 

 celebrated Turtle mound, 8* miles south of ^w Smyrna. It is com- 

 posed mostly of oyster shells, with occasional conchs. The western side, 

 next to the Hillsboro' Eiver, is now abraded by the water to a pre- 

 cipitous bluff. It appears to have two summits, with quite a vaUey be- 

 tween, and the sides are covered with thick bushes. This mound is de- 

 scribed by the same writer in Smithsonian Eeport, 1866, p. 357, and by 

 myself in Eod and Gun, November 4, 1876. 



We come next to a very large mound at Bissett's Hill, on the west 

 side of Hillsboro' Eiver, about a mile south of Turtle mound. It is 

 as much as forty feet high, with steep sides, composed of shells and 

 black earth, and covered with a wild orange grove. It was also used 

 by tJie Coast Survey as a triangulation station, and its position is well 

 shown on their published chart, Ko. 4, of the Inside Passage, East Coast 

 of Florida, Hillsboro' Eiver. Several of the mounds on the Hillsboro 

 Eiver and Mosquito Lagoon are shown on these charts. 



Directly east of Bissett's Hill, on the beach ridge or peninsula, close 

 to the East Channel, is a small shell-bank at a place caUed Pumpkin 



^ Just a mile and a half below Bissett's Hill is a small shell mound, 

 called "Live Oak Mound," on land of Mr. Lafayette AUen, and a few 

 rods north of his house. This I did not examine. 



A little more than 2 miles south of Bissett's Hill, on the west side, is 

 a sheU heap known as Oak HUl. It is about 18 or 20 feet high nearly 

 800 feet long and 500 feet wide, the longest side fronting on the lagoon. 

 It is composed of shells, mostly oyster, and is very irregular on the top, 

 with many smaU hillocks of shells, with depressions between them, as 

 if the hill had been the abode of several families, each one making it^s 

 own heap. The east side is washed by the waters of the lagoon, and 

 the west is backed by a marsh and creek about 800 feet wide alto- 

 gether. Human bones and pottery are found m it. There is^ a post- 

 office called Oak Hill upon it and several houses. ^^^ f/^^^^^^' ^f^^f ^^, 

 a county commissioner of Volusia County, once lived liere and two of 

 his family are buried on the top, just south of his house. This is a true 

 k okkenmodding. It is situated on a point, partially protected in he 

 rfar byTcreek'^^^ marsh, as is the one at Bissett's Hill. This kind 

 of location was a favorite one with these people. It served to protect 

 them from the stealthy approach of an enemy or from the dangerous 



