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lance-head of hornstone, 4 inches long ; a lance-head of chert ; two arrowheads of 

 chalcedony ; a tooth of a fossil shark, perforated for use as a pendant. With the 

 basal burials and with the sub-basal ones, some of which were 6.5 feet beneath the 

 surface, were no artifacts. The burials on and 

 below the base, in every case but three, were 

 closely flexed, while the flexion in the body of the 

 mound was loose in character. The burials with 

 European objects, however, were not intrusive, but 

 belonged to the period when the part of the mound 

 in which they were was made. 



At the northern end of Pine Island Sound are 

 several islands, among which Mondongo and Joseffa 

 were visited by us. These islands, though thickly 

 covered with aboriginal deposits of shell, are not of 

 the pile-dweller type, since the islands are of sand, 

 a number of feet in height, on which the debris of aboriginal meals has been 

 thrown. Though Mr. F. P. Roach, owner of Joseffa Island, placed it at our dis- 

 position, we had by this time done so much fruitless digging into the shell of the 

 west coast that we did not feel justified in taking time from what we believed to be 

 a richer district farther south. 



Josselyn Key, Lee County. 



Josselyn Key, in Pine Island Sound, off the northwestern end of Pine Island, 

 has been .described by Mr. dishing. There is a large shell deposit on the island 

 with courts, canals, mounds and platforms. We made a number of excavations in 

 the muck of various courts and canals, finding absolutely nothing. 



Demorey Key, Lee County. 



This island lies about two and one-third miles S. S. E. from Josselyn Key. 

 Here our men made numerous excavations in the muck, finding it from 1 to 3 feet 

 in depth. Nothing was obtained beyond several bits of coarse earthenware. 



Mr. Cushing has described Demorey Key with considerable detail, and it was 

 there he found the "truncated pyramid" with the wall of conch-shells described by 

 him, 1 and shown in Plate XXIX and, in elevation with the rest of the key, in 

 Plate XXVIII. Mr. Cushing says : " The most remarkable feature of this key was 

 a flat, elongated bench, or truncated pyramid, that crowned the middle elevation. 

 I discovered this merely by accident. In order to gain a general idea of the key, 

 which was almost as much overgrown with luxuriant and forbidding vegetation as 

 had been the wilder key first explored, I climbed high up among the skinny and 

 crooked limbs of a gigantic gumbo limbo that grew directly from the inner edge of 



1 Op. cit, pp. 10 and 11. 



