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stamp, one with ornamentation apparently made by impression of a finger-nail, and 

 a small portion of a graceful vessel of excellent ware covered with crimson pigment, 

 inside and out, and ornamented in places with fine, punctate markings. 



One fragment of earthenware in this mound had a mingling of white material, 

 here and there, giving it the appearance of shell-tempered Avare. Expert examina- 

 tion, however, showed it to be pounded lime-stone, pi'obabl}-, since it was largely 

 carbonate of lime, and showed no lamination under tlie glass. Shell-tempered ware 

 is very unusual in Florida at any distance from Alabama where that ware was 

 used. The material of which we speak, however, also, is exceptional in potter}- of 

 the peninsula. 



Mounds near Dry Creek, Levy County. 



Dry Creek enters Waccasassa bay about three miles to the westward of Wacca- 

 sassa river. By following the course of the creek about 1.5 miles through the salt 

 marsh, the Gulf Hammock is reached. The territory thus known is a strip of ham- 

 mock land of varjdng breadth lying back of the salt marsh which borders the Gulf, 

 between the Suwannee and Withlacoochee rivers. 



Following a road entering the hammock, about .75 of a mile, we came upon a 

 mound by the road-side, on property of Mr. Arthur T. Williams, of Jacksonville, 

 Florida, about 2 feet high and 25 feet across the circular base. On the mound was 

 a giant live-oak. We were unable to find either bone or artifact in this mound, in 

 which there had been much previous digging. 



About 300 yards farther along the road is an " old field," fallow^ for years. In 

 this field, bordering a pond, is a mound 34 feet across the base and about 2.5 feet in 

 height, also on property of Mr. Williams. 



The mound, which was dug through by us about as extensively as a great oak 

 growing upon it permitted, was composed of black loam from the nearby swamp. 

 In this were masses of lime-rock similar to many in the surrounding field. 



Many human bones, probably scattered bj- the plough, as the mound had been 

 under cultivation, were met with bj- us, also three flexed skeletons and a number of 

 bones of lower animals. 



Mound near Burns' Landing, Levy County. 

 Burns' Landing is about seven miles up the Waccasassa river. Following a 

 road leading into the Gulf Hammock from the landing, about 1.5 miles, we came to 

 a small mound in sight of the road. This mound, about 25 feet in diameter and 18 

 inches in height, at the time of our visit, had been so thorouohlv duo- throuuh that 

 no work by us Avas attempted. 



Mound near Bear Landing, Levy County. 

 This mound, about 200 yards in a northerly direction from the landing, which 

 is about six miles up the Withlacoochee river, following the course of the stream, 

 was in hammock land near the edge of the pine woods, on property of Mr. W. R. 



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