140 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 



These vessels, which in cajxicitj' ranged between 2 quarts and four times that 

 amount, were so water soaked and so hopelessly crushed that all hope of saving 

 them was abandoned. 



Fiu. 18. — Handle of vessel. Mound near West Bay P. O. 

 (Eight-niuths size.) 



Fig. 19. — Handle of vessel. Mound near West Bay 

 P. O. (Eight-niuths size.) 



Mound near West Bay Creek, Washington County. 

 This mound, in pine woods on property of Mr. W. M. Sowell of Point Washing- 

 ton, Florida, is about one-half mile in a northeasterly direction from the northern 

 side of the western extremity of West bay, which is one of the subdivisions of St. 

 Andrew's bay (see map). Its diameter of base was 45 feet; its height, 2 feet 9 

 inches. Careful investigation led to the conclusion that this mound belonged to the 

 domiciliary class. 



Mound in Brock Hammock,^ Washington County. 



This mound, about 2.5 feet high and 38 feet across the base, was about 3 miles 

 in a S. direction from West Bay post-office and 300 yards, approximately, from the 

 water, on land said to belong to the United States Government. A large exca- 

 vation had been made in the center previous to our visit. Extensive trenching by 

 us yielded a small, imperforate, undecorated bowl of poor quality and several sherds, 

 bearing the small check stamp or the complicated variety. 



Human remains, which were no doubt central, had probabl}^ fallen to the lot of 

 the previous digger. 



Larger Mound near Burnt Mill Creek, Washington County. 

 This mound, which the owner, Mr. Marion Shypes, who lives nearby, informed 

 us had been ploughed over ten years, stood in a cultivated field on the north side of 

 the creek about 1 mile from the mouth and 200 yards from the water, approxi- 



1 The word hammock, used by Captain Bernard Romans in tlie latter lialf of the XVIII cen- 

 tury', in his "Concise Natural History of East and West Florida," stands for territory on which grow 

 palmetto, oak and other woods in contradistinction to pine lands, the prairie, the swamp and the 

 marsh. The word is widely employed in Florida. 



