CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, CENTRAL FLORIDA AY.-COAST. 427 



visible from the water, on property of Mr. E B. Liles, of Ehrer., Fla. is an oblo:^ 

 mound running almost north and south, 142 feet along the base and '.OJf^* acms^ 

 "The summit plateau is 91 feet long and 19 feet in width. The height is 9 feet. 

 The mound, composed of alternate layers of sand and of shell, as .s shown by former 

 excavations, is probably domiciliary. -w ,, ,^n has 



Mr S T Walker, in the Smithsonian Report for 1879, page o92, et seq., has 

 described, 'and given plans of, this domiciliary mound and of the burial mound 

 nearby, a description of which we are about to give. , . .,. -,- , 



About 100 yards in an easterly direction from the domiciliary mound is a 

 mound of sand, of irregular outline (see Plan, Fig. 81), also on P^Peftj of M. 

 LUes The mound, narrowest at its western end, slopes gently upward for 58 feet, 









•'^'•^JL' ''"'//' /<///, ''''w/'f till I ' ■ ■' ii()iill iiIiF™ M' I* -yjw^^ 



Fig, 81.-Plau. Mound near Pithlocliascootie river. 



.,«„ the maxi,nu,„ heigh.. 4 fee, is reached. There is then a ^^^^^^^.^^^ 

 the ieve. ground at the ^^'^^^l^^:^,^:^^^^^!^^::^.^, 

 \x\ ascribino- to the sand mound a height greater iium y, . ,,„*+;„„■ 



a" d in his plan of the burial mound has reversed the pos.Uon of .ts ends, pu.tu^g 

 the broader end at the western e.xtremity. •j„.,;„„ th» ,i,e of 



There had been eomparatively little previous d.ggmg ™"f ^h^bk 

 tire mound. Mr. Walker's digging, amounhng to but httle, was plainlj t.aeeable. 



