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Ето. 4.—Sherd. Mound in Gasparilla Sound. 
(Half size.) 
Fic. 5.—Sherd. Mound in Gasparilla Sound. 
Fras. 1, 2, 3.—Sherds. Mound at Hickory Bluff. (T wo-thirds size.) ( Half size.) 
THE SOUTHERN FLORIDA COAST. 
The remainder of the season of 1904 was devoted to exploration of the coast 
of southern Florida and adjacent islands. We had explored a part of this region 
in the season of 1900, when we investigated from a point north of Tampa bay 
southward to Chatham river (see outline map). А report of this work is given in 
“Certain Antiquities of the Florida West-Coast," Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phila., 
Vol. XI. 
This season (1904), beginning at Charlotte Harbor, we continued southward 
through Pine Island sound, Estero bay and along the Gulf coast to the island of 
Marco, next to the northernmost key of the Ten Thousand islands. From Key 
Marco our course lay through the keys. including Chokoloskee Key and Lossman's 
Key, and along the coast to Cape Sable, the southern boundary of the Ten Thous- 
and islands. 
Rounding Cape Sable and visiting points of interest on the mainland and 
