522 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
and sloping upward gradually at three equidistant points. At one of these a 
missing part has since been restored. This vessel, shown in Fig. 2, has a basal 
A. 
Fic. 2.— Vessel of earthenware. Mound at Wise Bluff. (Height 4.8 inches.) 
perforation, as have all but one found at this place which were suffieiently whole 
for determination. 
Through the side of the vessel in question is an even, round hole equaling a 
lead pencil in diameter and resembling a perforation made by a sounding-rod, 
though it can hardly be such, as these rods are not known to have been used on 
this river, and the vessel, when found, was upright and could not, when in the 
mound, have been evenly pierced through the side by such an appliance. 
MOUND NEAR SPRING HILL LANDING, WASHINGTON COUNTY, FLORIDA. 
About one-half mile southeast by east from Spring Hill Landing, on Holmes 
river, an affluent of the Choctawhatchee, on the property either of the J. F; 
Williams Land Co. of Tallahassee, Fla., or of the R. E. L. McCaskill Co. of De 
Funiak Springs, in the same state, is a mound about 5 feet high and 33 feet in 
diameter. Persons living near the mound informed us that the land of these 
companies adjoined and that residents there were unable to say on which side of 
the line the mound stood. 
The mound, in an old field, though plainly the eminence never had been plowed 
over, was a truncated cone and symmetrical, though previous diggers had put 
down a hole centrally in it 4.5 feet by 12 feet —probably getting a few fragments 
of bones for their pains. The mound was completely dug through by us. 
