300 - MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATION IN FLORIDA. 
MOUNDS OF LAKE TOHOPEKALIGA, OSCEOLA COUNTY. 
MOUND NEAR KISSIMMEE. 
In a prairie, near the lake-shore, about one mile in a SSW. direction from the 
town of Kissimmee, on land of Mr. Walter Bass, Sr., of Kissimmee, is a mound, 
circular in outline, that has been much pawed and trampled by cattle. Its present 
height and diameter of base are 3 feet and 80 feet, respectively. It is built of sand, 
as are all the mounds of Lake Tohopekaliga. 
Twelve excavations, each about 3 feet square, extending to the base of this 
mound, resulted in the finding of one arrowhead of chert, a fragment of earthen- 
ware bearing the ubiquitous small check-stamp, and several sherds of most inferior 
ware, each about .5 inch in thickness, with decoration of incised lines. No human 
remains were found. The mound was doubtless domiciliary. 
LANIER MOUND. 
Situated in pine woods, about 6 miles in a southerly direction from the town 
of Kissimmee, on property of Mr. J. M. Lanier, living near by, is an artificial ridge 
of white sand extending almost due north and south. This ridge is 250 feet long 
and 90 feet in maximum basal breadth; its greatest height is 12 feet 3 inches. 
Previous to our visit, considerable digging had been done in this mound by persons 
in some cases known to the owner. No discoveries were reported by these persons. 
Although the Lanier mound had every appearance of having been constructed 
for domiciliary purposes, and the lack of success of previous diggers tended to bear 
out this idea, three excavations were made by us, each 10 feet square and extend- 
ing to the base of the mound. One of these was in the southern part, where the 
mound reached its greatest height; another, of almost equal depth, somewhat more 
to the north, and the third toward the northern extremity, where the height of the 
mound was about 8 feet. 
In one excavation no relics or remains were encountered. In one was a small 
deposit of charcoal, and three bits of inferior, undecorated earthenware, found 
separately. 
In the second excavation, at a depth of about 20 inches, was a “celt,” with 
fragments of a human pelvis and parts of a femur and a humerus. About 3 feet 
distant, at the same level, was a human skull without the lower Jaw. 
Two and one-half feet down, in the same excavation, was а “celt,” almost 
oblong in outline, with a bit of shell and two fragments of bone, too small for 
identification. 
In our opinion this also was a domiciliary mound and the “ celts 
remains were intrusive. 
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and human 
MOUNDS NEAR Brown’s LANDING. 
Brown’s landing is about one mile south of Edgewater, on the southwestern 
shore of Lake Tohopekaliga. A mound is situated in pine woods about 2 miles in 
a southwesterly direction from the landing, in sight from the publie road, оп prop- 
