308 MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATION IN FLORIDA. 
Three beads of sheet-silver, with overlapping edges, somewhat less than 2 
inches, 1.25 inch, and 1 inch, in length, respectively, came from various parts of 
the mound, with or near burials, as did part of a glass cross (Fig. 7); a fragment of 
an earthenware vessel, about 1.5 inches in length, verging on ovoid in outline (Fig. 
8), and a rude though interesting pendant of glass, showing aboriginal work on 
European material (Fig. 9). 
With a burial was а сопсауо-сопуех pendant of thin sheet-silver, about 5 
inches long, with two holes at one end for suspension (Fig. 10). 
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Mound оп Pine Island. 
(Full size.) Fig. 10.—Ornament of sheet-silver. Mound on Pine Island. (Full size.) 
We have here a good example of a mound distinctly post-Columbian, contain- 
ing many objects as to the European provenance of which no doubt can be enter- 
tained. 
MOUND NEAR PUNTA Rassa, LEE COUNTY. 
About two miles in a northerly direction from Punta Rassa, in the heart of a 
mangrove swamp, a mound was reached by rowing up Shell creek a short distance, 
and then going into the swamp about 300 yards, from the northern side of the 
creek. The aid of a guide is necessary. The mound, which was kindly placed at 
Figs. 11, 12, 13.—Sherds. Mound near Punta Rassa. (About full size.) 
our disposal by the owner, Mr. George R. Shultz, of Punta Rassa, is of pure, white 
sand. The outline of the base is circular, save at one place, where a sort of flat 
projection extends into the swamp. The mound is 14 feet 6 inches in height. If 
