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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. gz 



After a night during which a strong southeast breeze forced us 

 to shift anchorage several times, we left Port Royal in the early 

 morning. We had neither seen nor heard of any Indian remains in 

 the vicinity, but it was with deep regret that we passed out between 

 the silent, crumbling batteries, once the pride of " the brethren of 

 the coast ", 



JONESVILLE BIGHT 



This small lagoon or series of drowned valleys is located about i 

 mile west of the beautiful little town of Oak Ridge (see map, fig. i). 

 Samuel Cooper, a long-time resident of Oak Ridge, told us of the 

 finding many years before of painted pottery on the densely wooded 



Fig. 10. — Sketch map of Junesville Bight, Roatan. (Made by Junius Bird.) 



ridges behind the town. We made a morning's expedition in search of 

 this or similar sites but failed to locate any archeological evidence, 

 although the ridges behind the lagoons would seem to be promising 

 sites for ofifertories. That afternoon, April 29, 1934, the Amiga took 

 us around to the head of Jonesville Bight (see map, fig. 10) to a site 

 (site i) which had been visted by the Boekelman Shell Heap Expedi- 



