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MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATION IN FLORIDA. 
MOUND NEAR McCoor's LANDING. 
McCool’s landing is somewhat north of Lee’s landing on the eastern lake shore. 
The mound, on hammock land, on property of Mr. W. A. McCool, of Beaver Falls, 
Pa., is about half a mile in an ESE. direction from the landing. It is 15 inches in 
height and 26 feet in diameter, and is thickly covered with small oaks and scrub- 
palmetto. Numerous carefully-made excavations yielded nothing. 
MOUND NEAR St. ELMO LANDING. 
St. Elmo landing is near the NE. extremity of the lake. The mound, on 
property of the United Land Co., of Philadelphia, is about one-quarter mile in an 
easterly direction from the landing. Its height is 3 feet, its diameter 75 feet. 
Twelve excavations, each about 3 feet square, yielded three bits of undecorated 
pottery. Presumably the mound was domiciliary in character. 
PEACE CREEK AND CHARLOTTE HARBOR. 
Leaving the Kissimmee region, we transferred our crew and the colored diggers 
to our steamer which lay at Fort Ogden, on Peace creek which ernpties into Char- 
lotte Harbor (see outline map). 
i The lower part of Peace creek, previously investigated by our agents, was 
searched by us without discovering aboriginal mounds worthy of extended investi- 
gation. 
Charlotte Harbor was examined a second time, a former visit having been 
made in the season of 1900, without material result. A number of reported 
mounds turned out to be shell-heaps only. 
MOUND NEAR Hickory Buiurr, ре Soro COUNTY. 
The remains of a mound near Hickory Bluff yielded to us only a few frag- 
ments of pottery of inferior grade, bearing crude line and punctate decoration, a 
selection of which is shown in Figs. l, 2, 3. 
MOUND IN GASPARILLA SOUND, Пе бото COUNTY. 
On a key believed to be nameless, the first large key north of Boca Grande 
Pass, in Gasparilla sound, were the remains of a sand burial mound almost demol- 
ished by treasure seekers, according to report. A small remaining part, dug down 
by us, contained the considerably decayed remains of from fifteen to twenty skele- 
tons, some loosely, some closely, flexed; but these burials yielded only a single 
skull worthy of preservation (Acad. Nat. Sci. catalogue, No. 2227). 
The sole artifacts found with the skeletons were three shell drinking-cups,— 
one imperforate, two with basal mutilation, with one burial; and two perforate 
ones with another burial. A number of fragments of inferior, undecorated ware lay 
where former diggers had left them. Two fragments of considerable size, found by 
us, have rude decoration, and оп one is а loop-shaped handle (Figs. 4, 5). Sand 
tinged with hematite lay in various parts of the mound. 
