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Berrien County. There was a vault, or dug hole, 5 feet long, 3 feet wide, 

 and li feet deep in the center of the mound, in which the bodies were 

 burnt and afterwards covered. On this covering was a burnt mass 3 

 feet deep and 20 feet in diameter. This had been covered up and the 

 burning process repeated. The dimensions of the mound were 48 feet 

 base diameter, and 6 feet in depth. No relics were found. 



The French Ferry mound is situated on lot of land No. 415, in the 

 tenth district of Berrien County, 10 miles south of Nashville, 7 miles 

 southeast of Adell post-office. These two mounds are 1 mile down the 

 river from the ferry, in a red-oak thicket, on a hillside facing south. 

 The earth for the structure was obtained 30 yards diagonally up the 

 hill. The work was built around a pine stump. No. 1 is of yellow sand 

 mixed with gravel and rock. In the middle was a mass of charcoal 

 mixed with the earth. No relics were found. 



MOUNDS AND SHELL HEAPS ON THE WEST COAST OF 



FLORIDA. 



By S. T. Walker, of Milton Fla. 



During the past two years the explorations of the mounds and shell 

 heaps on the western coast of Florida have been continued, and many 

 of the principal remains left by the aborigines between Hillsborough 

 County on the south and Pensacola Bay on the west have been located, 

 thus connecting the work with that done in 1879, a full report of which 

 may be found in the Smithsonian Report for that year. These explora- 

 tions were necessarily confined to the coast lines, or to such points as 

 could be reached by the rivers. In no case, however, were they pushed 

 very far above the influence of the tide. 



On the accompanying map of Pensacola Bay and vicinity (Map 1) 

 all the principal mounds and shell heaps may be seen at a glance. The 

 mounds are generally quite small and were nearly all erected for domi- 

 ciliary purposes. The shell heaps are also small in comparison with ' 

 those of Tampa Bay. The long residence of white men in this portion 

 of the State has tended to obliterate all traces of aboriginal occupancy 

 except the larger mounds and shell heaps, and, besides these, but little 

 remains of their works excepting an occasional arrow-head or a frag- 

 ment of broken pottery. This is especially the case in the immediate 

 neighborhood of Warrington and Pensacola. 



It is probable that there was a large Indian population around the 

 northern end of Escambia Bay and about the mouth of Escambia River, 

 as many relics have been obtained in that region. 



At the former site of the old village of Florida Town, in the vicinity of 

 Ferry Pass, a large stone mortar was found weighing 157 pounds. This 

 singular utensil is formed out of a coarse sandstone which is still quite 



