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" We also examined the sample for silver, antimony, tin. bismuth, iron and 

 zinc, but found no indication of their presence. 



" The sample was very much corroded and was cleaned with acids before 

 analysis. 



" We do not think that this copper came from Lake Superior, since we have 

 never found lead in any sample that we have examined ; neither can we find any 

 record of its presence in any published report.*' 



Extended investigation shows no report of the presence of lead in native 

 Lake Superior copper. 



The result of this analysis indicates the copper in Mt. Royal as obtained : 



(1) through intercourse with Europeans, or 



(2) from aboriginal sources other than the Lake Superior region. 

 Of this matter we shall speak farther in Part II of this report. 

 Miscellaneous Objects. — On the base of the mound, near the center, associated 



with pottery, in the neighborhood of the chert and hornstone fragments already 

 described, was the columella of a marine univalve, ground at the beak. 



During the excavation, the enamel-like covering of the crowns of two teeth of 

 the man-eating shark were met with. 



CONCLUSIONS. 



So great a mass of sand is piled up at Mt. Royal that a total demolition of the 

 mound was not attempted, and we are, therefore, debarred from forming final con- 

 clusions. Among the hundreds of objects taken from the great mound was not 

 one bead of glass nor implement of iron, nor was any object met with obviously 

 of European manufacture, or of necessity connecting the mound with a period sub- 

 sequent to the arrival of the whites. 



Small Sand Mound near Mt. Royal. 



Four hundred yards north by east of the great mound was* a small sand 

 mound which we totally demolished. Its height was 3 feet 2 inches, its circumfer- 

 ence, 195 feet. It was unstratified. A little west of the center was a pocket of 

 shell on the base. No skeletons were met with, nor relics of any sort, with the 

 exception of two fragmentary arrow points of chert. 



Sand Mound Near Hitchen's Creek, Volusia County. 



About half a mile south of Volusia Bar, Hitchen's Creek, a waterway connect- 

 ing the river with Lake George, enters the St. John's. On the left hand side, going 

 up, about a quarter of a mile from the point of union, is the home and grove of 

 Miles Revels upon a large deposit of shell. A quarter of a mile north of the 

 house in the palmetto hummock is a sand mound 3 feet 8 inches in height and 243 



