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Turtle Mound is built up on the lagoon shore of the barrier 
dunes. In fact, it arises abruptly to a height said to be eighty 
€ 
dopa of the mound appe: 
“It is Hive nn 7 [far too er te an palgea a composed 
doubt in my mind. Some eight or ten years since 
a gale in this section of the country, from the north west, whi ay 
caused that portion of the mound ape os river, the steepest 
a 
part, to sh and Sal aan ‘ing ther ew 
afterward, I took considerable pai: ee examine the face of it, 
and found low as the botto ne as as I could observe, 
tit: 
principally of fish, but no human ones, also charcoal and beds 
of ashes. ”’! 
eastern side of the mound has a more gradual slope; the 
und 
grass. Today it supports a hammock. There are over thirty 
kinds of wendy plants and perhaps twice as many herbs on 
as ny etation, although the ele is pretty far north along 
s largely of a tropical character—the snowberry 
(Chie, hide oe (Exot ee. torchwood (Amyris), marl- 
erry (Icacorea), wild-coffee (Psychotria), black-mangrove (Avi- 
cn), aes nares Ove (Laguncularia), paises (Hise 
phor 
were al 
fete and trees. Among the herbs of a a “eoica flavor were 
d wild plu 
Baldwin’s time. Even the Papaya (Carica) was there in its 
wild state, evidently brought up the coast by migratory birds. 
The citrus fruits were represented by the wild orange in all 
stages pe owth, from old trees down to seedlings a year old. 
The ise herb near the top of the mound was a usually 
1D. G. Brinton, Notes on the Floridian Peninsula 78. 1859. 
