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of the mound, maintained its oblong shape to the bottom with great regularity, 
though slanting inward somewhat, its basal dimensions being 22 inches by 45 
inches. No trace of bone was discovered in this grave, but as the material filling 
it was decidedly moist, a burial formerly in it unquestionably had decayed away. 
The third grave, 34 inches by 55 inches, extending 27 inches below the base of 
the mound, resembled the second one in the regularity of its shape; the dimensions 
of its base were 23 inches by 4 feet. No trace of bones was present in it. 
MOUND NEAR OTTER CREEK, Bay County, FLORIDA. 
This mound, in pine woods, on property belonging to Miss Minnie Anderson, 
of High Point, N. C., was reached by going about 4 miles up East river (a division 
of the Choctawhatchee) to its union with Otter creek, and then continuing about 
three miles up the creek to a landing on the south side and walking inland about 
one-half mile, in an easterly direction. 
The mound, much spread apparently, 4 feet in height and 75 feet in diameter, 
had centrally a hole about 6 feet by 10 feet which had been put down between the 
time of the visit of our agent and our own. Residents in the neighborhood who 
said they had been present when the hole was dug, asserted that nothing had been 
found. 
The mound had all the appearance of being a domiciliary one. It was 
trenched and dug into in a number of places by us without encountering bone or 
artifact. 
MOUND NEAR WISE BLUFF, WALTON County, FLORIDA. 
In a cultivated field, on the property of Mr. Robert Bozeman, at Wise Bluff, 
resident on the place, was the remainder of a mound much spread by cultivation, 
which, we were told, had been considerably dug into without success. Frag- 
ments of human bones, however, were on the surface. 
This remainder, 2.5 feet in height and 38 feet in diameter, was entirely dug 
down by us. The remains of a skull and a few long-bones together, traces of 
skulls in three places, one in a hole made and refilled by previous digging, were 
encountered in different parts of the mound. 
With one of the skulls had been most of an undecorated pot in fragments, 
1.5 foot from which was another pot having a part missing, bearing a complicated 
stamp carelessly applied. 
Almost exactly in the eastern part of the mound, 6 to 8 inches below the sur- 
face when dug by us, was the ceremonial deposit of pottery usually encountered 
in mounds in this region. This deposit consisted of fragments of various vessels, 
some plain, some with pinched decoration, one having a punctate and line design, 
and one a complicated stamp. 
With these were two vessels, one diminutive, decorated on the upper half of 
the body with diagonal, parallel, incised lines; the other carefully made, having 
the same kind of decoration and a rim effective in appearance, som what flaring 
