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THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 553 
About 200 yards north by east from the mound is a dwelling-site about 2.5 
feet in maximum height and 87 feet by 80 feet in diameter. "This site, largely 
sand, contained considerable shell deposits here and there and numerous frag- 
ments of earthenware, mostly of excellent quality, with other general dwelling- 
site refuse. Trial-holes failed to come upon burials. 
Fic. 28.—Vessel of earthenware. Mound near Crooked Island. (Height 4.1 inches.) 
MOUND NEAR MicHavx Loa LANDING, LIBERTY COUNTY. 
This mound, on Apalachicola river, which could not be reached from the 
stream at the time of our former visit, owing to high water, is in woods on prop- 
erty of Messrs. L. E. and 8. W. Michaux, living in the neighborhood, the mound 
being about a mile in a straight line in an easterly direction from Michaux Log 
Landing, which is about 8 miles by water and somewhat more than 4 miles by 
land, above Estiffanulga. 
The mound, but little dug into before our coming, was about 3.5 feet in 
height, with diameters of 37 and 40 feet. A converging trench 37 feet in width 
on the chord of the margin was carried through the center of the mound. 
Fragments of pottery were found a little north of east, about 2 feet in from 
the margin, the deposit continuing in about 11 feet and consisting in the main 
of fifteen vessels having but few intervening sherds. These vessels, whole or 
nearly entire as a rule, or if broken, having full or almost complete complement 
of fragments lying together, and probably accidentally erushed after interment 
and not broken and the parts ceremonially scattered, are commonplace in form. 
Some are without decoration; one bears the small check stamp; a number have 
