438 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, CENTRAL FLORIDA W.-COAST. 



of the west-coast. Gritty ware and shell-tempered ware, as might have been ex- 

 pected, practically were absent. 



The finding of solid copper, a fish-spear along the Suwannee river, and pen- 

 dants of solid copper in the Crystal river mound, came in the nature of a surprise. 

 Though we had found several large and heavy beads of solid copper along the 

 Ocklawaha river and near the Lakes from which the river runs, and a lance-head 

 of thin copper near the mouth of the St. Johns, yet sheet-copper preponderated to 

 such an extent among our discoveries of copper in Florida, that we had come to 

 regard the territory as being so far distant from the source of aboriginal supply that 

 the material would be used there hardly otherwise than as a veneer. It seems, 

 however, that some solid copper was in use there, and doubtless more will be 

 found as mound-work is continued in the State. 



