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to dig until I found there was no prospect of unearthing a complete 
bone, much less a skeleton, when I stopped them and began the return, 
which was rapid and easy. On reaching Tise’s Ford I made a thorough 
examination of that locality. In a cut-off or old river-bed I found a 
vast number of fragments of huge bones, but none entire except one 
small vertebra, which I send you. My opinion is that the bones are 
washed up from the bottom of the river during high water, as I failed to 
find the slightest evidence of any fossils in the clays. The bed of gravel 
at Gardner’s Bluffs I think was deposited in ancient times by the river. 
lam induced to think thus because at Fort Meade and other places 
above they dig up sharks’ teeth, turtles, and bones in wells at the depth 
of 18 and 20 feet. 
MILTON, FLORIDA, August 10, 1883. 
