

JOURNAL 



OF 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 



OF PHILADELPHIA 



CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF THE ST. JOHN'S RIVER, FLORIDA. 



By Clarence B. Moore. 

 Preface to Part I. 



This first part of the report on the sand mounds of the St. John's River, 

 Florida, consists of scarcely more than an amplification of field notes which have 

 been given with considerable minuteness, since Florida is almost an unknown land 

 to the archseologist. 



Thanks are tendered to Professor Cope, to Professor Holmes, to Andrew E. 

 Douglass, Esq., and to Professor Haynes, for valuable references and information ; 

 also to Dr. M. G. Miller for continuous aid in the field and in the preparation of 

 this report. 



Philadelphia, July, 1893. C. B. M. 



PART I. 



The sand mounds of the St. John's River, Florida, have not until recently met. 

 with systematic investigation. 



The late Professor Jeffries Wyman, while exploring shell heaps of the 

 river between Palatka and Lake Harney, confined himself, so far as the sand 

 mounds were concerned, to superficial examinations. 1 



1 " Freshwater Shell Mounds of the St. John's River, Florida." Footnote page 47. 



1 JOUR. A. N. S. PHILA., VOL. X. 



