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considerable aboriginal shell deposit and a sand mound about 6 feet in height, which 

 has been thoroughly dug through. 



Caximbas Hill is a wind formation on the southwestern part of Marco Island. 

 Nearby is a considerable shell deposit. 



Proceeding in a southerly direction among the Ten Thousand Islands, we 

 visited Gomez' Old Place on a small nameless key reached from the Gulf through 

 a pass about two miles east of Coon Key, and continuing in about one mile in a 

 northerly direction. The key, at present writing (1900), is uninhabited. It covers 

 probably about 30 acres of interesting shell deposit, partly surrounding a basin that 

 fills with the rising tide. 



Dismal Key, Lee County, lies about 2 miles north of Horse Key, an outside 

 island about 5 miles E. S. E. from Coon Key Pass, which is the southern entrance 

 to Marco. This unsurveyed key has a great shell deposit with the usual mounds 

 and the like. 



Fikahatchee Key, Lee County, unsurveyed, perhaps 150 acres in extent, can 

 be reached by an inland passage at high tide, or from the Gulf through a nameless 

 pass and continuing in among the islands for from three to four miles. In any 

 event, a pilot is requisite. On this island is an extensive shell deposit. A family 

 living on the key occupies a house partly built upon piles. 



Russell's Key may be reached from the Gulf by entering the islands about 

 three miles above Sandfly Pass and continuing in among the keys another three 

 miles. This key, which has large aboriginal shell deposits, perhaps 60 acres in 

 extent, is occupied by Mr. J. W. Russell and Mr. M. M. Gaston with their families. 



Wiggins' Key on Sandfly Pass, 1 about one mile from the Gulf, on the right- 

 hand side going out, has extensive shell deposits and two small burial mounds of 

 sand and shell Avhich have been much dug into. Our excavations, made with per- 

 mission of Mr. J. Wiggins, the owner, were unrewarded. 



This place is shown on maps as in the northern limits of the county of Monroe, 

 but at the present time this territory, extending south below Chokoloskee Key, 

 is claimed by Lee County, and, it is said, probably will be obtained by it. 



Chokoloskee Key, Monroe County. 



This island lies in the lower part of Chokoloskee Bay, a sheet of water back 

 of the maze of islands bordering the Gulf. 



The island is unsurveyed. It is roughly circular and is said to be somewhat 



1 See Government Chart, No. 173. 



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