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it refleets the rays of the sun; an awl of bone; several rude eutting implements 
or wasters of flint; a sheet of mica. 
In all directions near the landing at the Lewis Place, the ground gives evidence 
of former aboriginal occupancy, and discovery of several objects of interest in 
it are reported by Mr. Lewis. 
In a field near the Lewis home, a short distance from the landing, was a low 
rise of sand blackened by organic matter, in which trial-holes came upon thirteen 
closely flexed burials and three disturbances. 
The absence of artifacts with the dead, so marked in the mound at this place, 
was noticeable also in the rise, though there was no general deposit of pottery or 
of masses of rock with the burials. "There were, however, two exceptions. With 
a skeleton closely flexed to the right was a celt, seemingly of eruptive rock, 8 
inches in length, a beautiful specimen carefully ground at the edge and rounded 
and dressed at the poll. This hatchet lay parallel to the skeleton at the outer 
side of the right forearm, the left forearm crossing the body to the implement. 
With another burial was an object of limestone, flat, almost oblong, without 
perforation, 3.5 inches in length, having a blunt edge. 
A bone awl, a sheet of mica, a lancehead of flint, and several unfinished im- 
plements of the same material were found apart from human remains. 
A number of other places visited by us on the Aucilla river proved to be only 
aboriginal dwelling-sites, yielding nothing of interest. 
MOUND NEAR THE WARRIOR RIVER, TAYLOR COUNTY. 
About one mile up Warrior river are some frame buildings known as the Fish 
Camp. Following the road out from this Fish Camp for a mile approximately, 
one comes to a mound in sight from the road, in scrub growth and pine, about 4 
feet high and 48 feet in diameter, said to be on railroad land. 
Ten large trial-holes, all greatly extended, ultimately including much of the 
eastern part of the mound, came upon four burials. | 
Burial No. 1, fragments of a skull and of a humerus, near the center of the 
mound. 
Burial No. 2, fragments of bones, having about 2 feet distant and perhaps 
not connected with them: a sheet of mica; three small, undecorated bowls; part 
of a compartment vessel having had at least four divisions, only two of which, 
however, remained entire. | 
Burial No. 3, a skull, femur, tibia, all in fragments and not in order. 
Burial No. 4. Centrally, with a sheet of mica, was a skull near a small 
1 In 1902 we visited this river and investigated two fine mounds in its vicinity. Ор. cit., р. 331, 
А The Warrior river we believe to be the southernmost limit of the Florida coast where deposits 
of earthenware were interred in the eastern part of mounds for the dead in common. Farther down, 
individual deposits of artifacts, if any, are to be expected. 
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