

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY 685 



Stockton, J. B., Toronto, Kans., reports tliat there are no mounds 

 in that vicinity. A cave near the town is reported to have carvings on 

 the walls. 



Tandy, W., of Dallas, Hancock County, Illinois, excavated a mound 

 near that place, which had been the buiial place of warriors. All the 

 skeletons were those of adults ; ten of the crania and a vertebra hav- 

 ing arrow-points sticking in them. There are about thirty mounds in 

 the vicinity of Dallas, of which Mr. Tandy will make a map. 



Walker, S. T., writing from Milton, Florida, makes the following men- 

 tion of antiquities : " I know of quite a large mound containing bones 

 on the Withlecoochee Eiver, seven miles north of Crystal Eiver post- 

 office, from which human bones have been taken ; another is situated 28 

 miles north of Milton, the most wonderful that I have seen. It is one 

 liuudred paces in circumference." 



He also states: "I have sailed over five hundred miles, and located 

 many mounds, shell heaps, sites of ancient villages, cemeteries, &e. 

 The most important discovery was that of an ancient canal leading from 

 the head of Horseshoe Bayou into the fresh-water lakes of the interior. 

 "This canal is about 10 or 12 feet wide, and must have been originally 

 from G to 15 feet deep. It is as straight as an arrow, excepting an obtuse 

 ngie in one place. Estimated length, one mile. Large pines grow on 

 •the embankments and cypresses, 2 feet in diameter, in the bottom of the 

 trench. The lakes, connected by this canal, are about 7 or 8 miles long, 

 and are famous for the immense numbers of fish which they contain. 

 All along Four-Mile Point shell heaps abound, and low mounds, from 1 

 2 feet high, are scattered through the woods for miles. These were 

 undoubtedly built for residence, each being large enough to accommo- 

 date a single house, excepting a few which are large enough for half a 

 dozen. East and west of Four-Mile Point the signs of ancient occupa- 

 tion grow gradually less, especially toward the mouth of Choctawhatchie, 

 where a single sand mound exists. West of this, at Indian Bayou, there 

 is a large domiciliary mound and several shell heaps, ^o more occur until 

 East Pass is reached, where are several small heaps and a cemetery. The 



urials seem to have been made in separate graves, some being covered 

 Avith a species of clay or coquina rock. At Camp Walton, or Brook's 

 farm, on the mainland, at the head of the sound, were discovered fifteen 

 large shell heaps and a large domicile mound, 15 feet high, 135 feet 

 wide, and 300 feet long, containing a layer of shells and some human 

 remains, while all through the hammock there are dozens of small cir- 

 cles of earth, &c. At Black Point, at the mouth of Garnier's Bayou, 

 was found a large sand mound, 10 feet high, with a circular base about 

 200 feet in diameter, and haAing a sloping roadway to the top. 



"Although no oysters now live in Choctawhatchie Bay, they once ex- 

 isted there in vast numbers. The heaps are composed almost entirely 



