472 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE N. W. FLORIDA COAST. 



Fig. 71.— Section of Ves- 

 sel No. 25. (Half 



size -) Fig. 72.-Vessel No. 27. Mound near Point Y 



ington. (Half size.) 



Vessel No. 38. — A fragment of a vessel of eccentric form, of very superior 

 ware, beautifully decorated. Traces of crimson paint remain (Fig. 75). 



Cemetery near Point Washington, Choctawhatchee Bay, 

 Washington County, Fla. 



Over a score of years ago, we were told, persons living at Point Washington 

 noticed earthenware vessels, or parts of vessels, projecting above the ground in a 

 hammock about 3.5 miles west of their settlement. Incidentally, it may be said 

 that the word hammock is used in certain parts of the Southern United States to 

 describe a tract of land on which grow the palmetto, the oak and certain other trees, 

 in contradistinction to the pine barrens, the swamp, the marsh, or the prairie. This 

 hammock, which is about three acres in extent, lies in from the bay and is 

 surrounded by pine woods. It is said that former visitors from the town obtained 

 a number of vessels at this place, though we saw but little evidence of former 

 digging, either on or below the surface. 



