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feci in circumference, to which is to be added 45 feet for the gateway 

 (J h. The wall is 5 feet high, with a diameter at the base of 25 feet. 

 The work is accompanied by an interior ditch, which, however, does 

 not extend across the gateway. Between the interior foot of the em- 

 bankment and the ditch is a platform 20 feet in width. 



One hundred and forty feet north of the small circle is a circular es- 

 tufa, walled with small bowlders. Forty feet still farther north is a 

 spring of clear cold water, which has never been known to fail. 



A PRIMITIVE STOREHOUSE OF THE CREEK INDIANS. 



By Charles C. Jones, Jr., of Agusta, Georgia. 



In his description of the customs of the ancient inhabitants of Virginia, 

 William Strachey* sajs: "Their corne and, indeed, their copper 

 hatchetts, howses, beades, perle and most things with them of value, 

 iu'cording to their own estymacion, they hide, one from the knowledge 

 of another, in the growud within the woodes, and so keejie them all the 

 yeare, or untill they have fltt use for them, as the Romans did their 

 monies and treasure in certaine cellars, called therefore as Pliuye remem- 

 bers, /a'y»sscc; and when they take them forth they scarse make tbeir 

 women privie to the store-house." 



In i)late xxii of the Brevis Narratio [Fraucoforti ad Moeuum mdxci], 

 le Moyne de Morgues furnishes a drawing of what, in the accompany- 

 ing text, is called a puhlicuni horreum. It is situated upon the low bank 

 of a river, and toward it canoes — filled with corn and fruits, and pro- 

 pelled by Florida Indians — are tending. Such granaries or public recep- 

 tacles were, by tbe peoples dwelling within the limits of the extensive 

 domain then known as Florida, built of stones or eartb, and roofed with 

 palmetto leaves and clay. For their location cool spots were selected, 

 where protection was found against the violent rays of the sun. They 

 served as depositories for maize, fruits, nuts, nutricious roots, dried 

 fishes, alligators, deer, dogs, and other jerked meats. Hoards of corn, 

 nuts, and meat are frequently mentioned in the early narratives as ex- 

 istent among the primitive peoples of this region at the time of primal 

 contact with Europeans. They were both public and private. 



In alluding to the agricultural occupations of the Southern Indians 

 Mr. Bartram observes : " When the fruits of their labors are ripe and in 

 fit order to gather in, they all, on they same day, repair to the planta- 

 tion, each gathers tbe produce of his own proper lot, brings it to town, 

 and deposits it in his own crib, allotting a certain portion for the public 

 granary which is called the King's crib because its contents are at his 



" History of Travaile into Virginia, p. 113. London. (Printed for the Hakluyt 

 Society, 1849.) 



