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rounded pebbles ; two smooth pebbles; a spear-head with broken point; a pebble 

 grooved at one end for a pendant ; and a neat little pendant also grooved at one end. 



One pebble-hammer, three pebbles, one chert arrowhead or knife lay closely asso- 

 ciated, while eight pebbles and pebble-hammers were found together in another place. 



A lance-head of chert, 5.2 inches in length, lay in the outer part of the mound 

 among the hatchets. 



Two graceful and keen-pointed arrow-or lance-points of chalcedon}', lay together. 



Also in the mound were : two arrowheads ; one small lance-point ; a bit of 

 quartz crystal ; a pendant of quartz crystal, with the part above the groove broken 

 off; a mass of galena, 2.5 inches by 2 inches, rounded and flattened at the ends as 

 though by use as a hammer. 



A fact worthy of note in this mound is that, with the exception of one small 

 pocket of calcined human bones found by us on the Alabama river, that in the Jack- 

 son mound is the westernmost example of cremation met with by us. 



Mound near Huckleberry Landing, Franklin County. 



Jackson river empties into the Apalachicola about 5 miles above the mouth of 

 the river which enters the bay of that name near the town of Apalachicola. 



Huckleberry landing is about 2 miles above the junction. 



About 100 yards from the landing, on the south side of the river, in hammock 

 land, on property of Mr. David Silva, resident nearby, was a mound which had 

 undergone a certain amount of previous digging, though not sufficient greatly to 

 impair the scientific value of our investigation. 



About 100 j-ards northwest from the mound were a shell-field and numerous 

 aboriginal shell deposits composed mainly of shells of a small clam [Rangia cimeata). 

 One of these deposits, from 1 to 3 feet in height, nearly oval in shape, is 120 feet E. 

 and W. and 180 feet N. and S., inside diameter. Other shell deposits lie to the 

 eastward of the mound. 



The mound, which was entirely dug through by us, was 5 feet 4 inches in 

 height and had a basal diameter of 38 feet E. and W. and 52 feet N. and S. It was 

 composed of sand with no regular stratification. In places, especially toward the 

 base, were various deposits of a clayey sand exceedingly tough and forming almost a 

 matrix. In this material often were shells of the kind present in the adjacent shell 

 deposits, while other pockets and small layers of these shells were present in the 

 looser sand also. 



Burials, of which we found thirty-four, began near the margin on the eastern 

 side and continued at intervals until the body of the mound was reached, where they 

 became more numerous. In other parts of the mound burials were not met with 

 beneath the slope. A few of the burials were near the surface. Some were 4.5, 

 feet down while one was lower still. So often did the bones lie in the tough clayey 

 material, of which we have spoken, that it seemed as though this clayey sand had 

 been put in expressly with the burials. Those that did not were the superficial 

 burials, with one exception, to be referred to later. Upon several occasions burials 



