530 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
A short distance farther into the mound fragments of other decorated vessels 
were found. 
No bones lay with any of the earthenware. Apart from human remains was à 
mass of flint, rudely chipped into the form of an axe. 
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The burials, five in number, with one exception were near what seemed to be 
the base, which consisted of yellow, undisturbed sand differing from the gray of 
the mound. 
MOUNDS ON THE Pare Prace, Houston County, ALABAMA. 
Pate Landing is slightly more than 123 miles up Choctawhatchee river. The 
mound, a short distance from Pate Landing, though not noteworthy as to size, 
is a veritable landmark on the Choctawhatchee. Persons more than fifty miles 
away told us of visits to it and described their digging. 
The height of the mound is about 8 feet at present; it has been so dug into, 
having a great excavation centrally, and others all over it, including large trenches 
from the margin inward, that it no longer possesses any regularity of outline, so 
that it would be impossible to indicate its original diameter. 
We learned that the mound had changed ownership since our permission to 
dig it had been obtained, and we made no effort to procure the consent of the 
present owner after having observed the condition of the mound. 
MOUNDS AND SITES INVESTIGATED ON THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST AND 
RIVERS. 
Mound near Pippen’s Lake, Choctawhatchee Bay, Walton County. 
Mounds in Big Hammock, Choctawhatchee Bay, Walton County. 
1 The Flint, a river of Georgia, is included in this list. 
