536 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
bay, Santa Rosa sound, Choctawhatchee bay, on the northwestern Florida' coast, 
publishing a report? of our work the same year, with full deseriptions and numer- 
ous illustrations. 
In our report (p. 496) we wrote as follows, describing certain shell deposits 
on Hogtown bayou, Choctawhatchee bay: 
* At Hogtown bayou are the principal shell deposits of Choctawhatchee bay, 
| - which are extensive, but in no wise com- 
+: parable with those of the St. Johns river 
[Florida], or with many on the Florida east 
coast, or on parts of the west coast, farther 
south. | 
“Itis our belief that a cemetery lies un- 
discovered at this place, as previous search 
by others has failed to locate a mound there, 
and careful investigation on our part availed 
only to find a small mound near the water's 
edge, about one mile up the bayou, on the 
south side." 
Atthat time the region was comparatively 
wild, and information derived from inhabit- 
ants was difficult to obtain, while obviously 
an individual or members of an expedition 
could not spare unlimited time foreing a way 
through a wide extent of undergrowth in the 
hope of coming upon surface indications of 
mw A an aboriginal cemetery. 
Fic. i- iok Села size.) Since our first visit, however, there has 
been a considerable influx of settlers around 
the. bayou, and on thick hammock* land, near Mack Bayou, a part of Hog- 
town bayou, on property the ownership of which we did not exactly determine, 
near but not immediately with the shell deposits, an aboriginal cemetery has 
been discovered and considerably dug into in a desultory way by residents and 
others. 
The cemetery, consisting of various low rises of sand, near together, was 
first noted, we were told, through the presence of aboriginal pottery projecting 
above the surface. The aboriginal cemetery near Point Washington, which we 
1 Except part of Perdido bay. 
2“ Certain Aboriginal Remains of the Northwest Florida Coast, Part I.” Journ. Асар. Nat. 
Scr. PHILA., vol. XI. 
3 Some now call it Santa Rosa bayou. 
4 Hammock land on which grow palmetto, oak, and other non-resinous woods, the term being 
used in eontradistinetion to pine woods, the prairie, the swamp, or the marsh. The word is used by 
Captain Bernard Romans writing in the eighteenth century in his “A Concise Natural History of 
East and West Florida," New York, 1775. 
