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In one deposit were : half of a bar-amulet of slate ; two smooth, flat fragments, 

 one of banded slate, one seemingly of fine-grained sandstone ; one pendant of sedi- 

 mentary rock ; one of igneous rock ; one of quartz ; a beautifullj^ made one of 

 quartz, somewhat worn. 



Again we would call the attention of the reader, before ending the account of 

 this interesting investigation, to the fact that nothing showing Avhite provenance 

 was met with during the work and that the entire area gone over by us was abso- 

 lutely virain. 



MouxD NEAR Crystal River Settlement, Citrus County. 



The settlement is at the head of Crvstal river. 



About 1.5 miles in a NNW. direction from the town, on propert}^ of Mr. Her- 

 man Miller, of Crystal River, in pine woods bordering a hammock, was a sand 

 mound 4 feet 9 inches high and 70 feet across the circular base. 



Thorough trenching showed this mound to belong to the domiciliary class. 



Mound near the Chassahowitzka River, Citrus County. 



The river has its source at a large spring, or boil, about eight miles from the 

 Gulf. 



The mound, in pine woods, about one-half mile in a E. by S. direction from the 

 landing at the river's head, was in full view from the road. Though but compara- 

 tively little dug into before our visit, seemingly, it had been much trampled b^- 

 cattle, and bits of human bone and fragments of earthenware were scattered here 

 and there over the entire surface. It was evident that the diameter of the mound, 

 75 feet at the time of our visit, had been extended at the expense of the height, 

 which was 4 feet. 



Fifteen trenches were started inward from the margin and continued until 

 human remains were encountered, when all trenches were joined and the remaining 

 part of the mound, which had a diameter of from 50 to 54 feet, probably about the 

 original diameter, was demolished. 



Eighteen burials, all very badly decayed, including the lone skull, were met 

 with. The bunched burial, also, was represented, sometimes without a skull, some- 

 times with one, and once with two. 



With one burial were bits of pottery and fragments of chert. With another 

 was an imperforate pot of inferior ware, bearing a small check-stamp. Certain 

 decaying fragments of bone had with them bits of different vessels. The following 

 vessels were in tlie mound, not as a general deposit but here and there, singly, per- 

 haps interred with burials since decayed ; a small, undecorated, imperforate vessel 

 modelled after a gourd ; an undecorated bowl with a basal perforation, having a 

 small depression below the rim at opposite sides ; a small vessel without decoration, 

 a flattened sphere in shape, having the usual mortuary mutilation ; an undecorated 

 vessel badly broken. 



A handle of a vessel, representing the head of a predatory bird (Fig. 63). was 



