128 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



and Putnam may be found in our " Certain Florida Coast Mounds north of the 

 St. Johns River," 1 page 25 et seq. 



Professor Putnam, in whose possession all our Georgia canine skulls now are 

 (1897), after an extended comparative study, is convinced that there can be no 

 doubt that a prehistoric dog existed, in type resembling the collie but with slightly 

 broader jaws. 



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Mr. Mercer has lately described' a portion of a canine jaw found by him in a 

 Maine shell-heap, with a note by Professor Cope. 2 



Ossabaw Island, Bryan County. Middle Settlement, Mound E. 



This mound, in the same field and about 300 yards W. of Mound D, had been 

 plowed over for so long a period that little could be determined as to its original 



i Privately printed, Philadelphia, 1896. 



2 " An Exploration of Aboriginal Shell Heaps." Publications of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Vol. VI, page 123 et seq. 



