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one earthenware vessel of superior ware and decoration was found, and this came 
from where the slope joined the mound proper and really belonged to the mound. 
Objects of crystal and of amethystine quartz, unbroken pipes, and copper (if we 
exclude a single object found in sand thrown out from the mound in our former 
visit) were not encountered on this oceasion, though the yield of such objects was 
abundant at the time of our first investigation. | | 
Artifacts, as before, were found with some burials and also scattered in sand 
and in the layers of shell. Possibly the scattered objects had belonged to burials 
represented by the disordered bones of which we have spoken; indeed it is likely 
that some of them did. We are inclined to believe that in some cases, also, artifacts 
Inches 
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 
Ете. l.—Sherds. Crystal River. 
were placed in the shell layers collectively for the dead in common. At all events, 
on one occasion at least, a deposit of sand colored with hematite occurred in a layer 
of shell in connection with artifacts, and this deposit of colored sand was compact 
as if intentionally placed in the shells and not scattered as seemingly it must have 
been had it been an accidental accompaniment of disarranged bones. 
Fragments of earthenware found during our second visit were inferior or were 
of medium excellence in the main, giving little evidence of what we know the 
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