PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



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We pass next to the sbell-banks, or kjokkenmoddings, at Dummett's, 

 U miles from the last. These are low fields, with shells and pottery, 

 and are found on the lagoon and Indian River sides of the isthmus 

 One of the largest orange groves in the State is growing at each of 

 those places. They were originally wild groves. 



Passing then to the head of Indian Eiver, on the east side of which 

 we find a mound in the hummock near Mr. GrifBs's, and descending to 

 Titusville I learn that there was a small sand mound about 6 or i feet 

 high on land of P. E. Wager, who removed it and excavated a cellar for 

 a house on its site. It was about 300 feet from the west bank of Indian 



East southeast from Titusville, on the east side of Indian River, on 

 Merritt's Island, there is a large mound on land of Dr. Moore as I was 

 informed bv J. W. Joyner, since deceased, who also stated that he picked 

 up several earthen vessels on it, which he used in the house until broken 



by the children. ^ , . . , 



On the Banana River there is a large shell-bank containing broken 

 pottery, at the De Soto Grove, on the east side of the river, on the line 

 between Townships 22 and 23 South. South of this about 5 mdes is a 

 burial mound in the orange grove of M. O. Burnham keeper of the 

 Cape Canaveral light-house. It is about 8 feet hign and 50 feet diam- 

 eter. There was a wild orange grove there. 



South of Titusville, 12.3 miles by the new Titusville and City Point 

 road, as I located it, is a large sand mound in the hummock now belong- 

 ing to Charles R. Carlin, but formerly to Albert Faber. It ^^ o^^*^^ 

 west side of the river, about 500 feet from the bank, m T. 23 S., R. 35 

 E. It is about 25 feet high. 



A very large mound or shell heap is reported directly east of the head 

 of Banana River, near the ocean beach, but I Hav^never visited it. 



In T 24 S R 36 E., are two sand mounds on Merrit's Island, ihe 

 most northerk one is about half a mile west of New Found Hai^or, and 

 the other is only about 100 feet from the east bank of Indian River, in 

 Sectrn 27, nea; the house of Aaron Cleveland, C. E. They are both 



'°?he next mounds of which I have any knowledge are situated on the 

 peninsula, between Indian River and the Atlantic Ocean, at the mouth 

 of BananL River. There is at that point a very large shell mound 

 which was used by the Coast Survey for a tri angulation station^ Is 

 western face is abraded by the waters of the nver into a «teeP ^lufl the 

 river having encroached nearly to the center. It is composed of smal 

 she'ls and fshes, mixed with human, animal, and fish ^-es. It is no 

 far from 50 feet high and 300 or 400 feet in diameter on the iivei. The 

 back of it is covered with a wild orange grove, and it is covered with 

 large India-rubber, torch-wood, and other trees. There is broken po- 

 tery mixed through it, but I could find but one stone implement, al- 



' * Detailed survey and plan of this locality was made. 



