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abundant at Acadia, about 4 miles east of the place where the mortar 

 was found. The marks of an iron or steel tool are plainly visible on this 

 mortar, and seem to point to the agency of the white man in its manu- 

 facture, while its peculiar shape is characteristic of the savage artisan. 

 Mr. Silas Jernagin, from whom this interesting relic was obtained, first 

 .saw it in the year 1828, at the house of a person who stated that it was 

 found in a neighboring hammock many years previous to that time. As 

 the latter person is dead, the precise facts in relation to its discovery 

 cannot be obtained. The mortar is now in the Smithsonian Institution, 

 and competent archaeologists may be able to decide the matter. It was 

 probably fashioned by an Indian, who had obtained an irou tool from 

 the Spaniards, and who had gotten some idea of stone-cutting from 

 communication with them. 



At the head of Escambia Bay there are numerous small shell heaps, 

 but no large mounds are encountered until a place is reached 1 mile north 

 of Garcon Point, the southern extremity of the peninsula dividing Es- 

 cambia and Blackwater Bays. Here are three large shell heaps situated 



BLACKWATER BAY. 



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Map 2. — Escribano Point, Florida. 



in a small held about 200 or 300 yards from the water. They are quite 

 regular in shape, and were probably used for domiciliary purposes. No 

 relics were obtained here except a few fragments of broken pottery. A 

 short distance from these mounds is a burial place, but as the evidences 



