164 A NATURE WOOING. 



Whenever "pork hungry/ 7 as Bennett put it, the hogs 

 are rounded up with dogs and killed. 



April 8j 1899. This morn I hired a darkey and 

 spent the day excavating in the shell mound, taking 

 measurements, etc. This mound is but one of many 

 which are scattered here and there over the entire 

 Floridian peninsula. For the most part they are 

 along the borders of the larger inland streams and 

 lakes, though a number, like the one at Ormond, are 

 located near the sea. I had no opportunity of explor- 

 ing any of the inland mounds, though I heard of a 

 number on my trip up the St. John's River. Prof. 

 Jeffries Wyman wrote a most interesting account of 

 these freshwater shell mounds, which was published 

 in 1875.* In it he states that: 



"The shell deposits on the river are entirely differ- 

 ent as to their characteristics from the mounds of the 

 sea coast. The last extend around the shores of the 

 whole peninsula of Florida and in certain places as at 

 Turtle Mound, Charlotte Harbor and Cedar Keys, 

 are of gigantic proportions. They are composed ex- 

 clusively of marine species, mostly of oysters on the 

 Atlantic, but on the Gulf coast of several species be- 

 longing to different genera, as Ostrea, Busy con, 

 S trombus, Fasciolaria, Cardium, etc."f 



The above statement does not hold good of this 

 mound at Ormond,, which is on a brackish or tide- 

 water river, within one mile of the Atlantic coast. 



* Fourth Memoir, Peabody Academy of Science, 

 t Loc. cit., p. 9. 



