THE ST. JOHN'S RIVER, FLORIDA. 



75 



Fig. (>■). Possibly heaver (full size] 



Fio. 1)8. Probably snapping turtle (full size). 



identified. Full particulars, including a note by Professor Cope, can be found in the 

 American Naturalist. July, 1893, from which we make the following extract : 



"• Professor Wyman's searches yielded no canine remains, 1 nor has the writer 

 hitherto upon any other occasion found, to the best of his knowledge, any portion 

 of the skeleton of the dog in the river mounds. Wyman was aware of no evidence 

 to show the presence of domestic dogs on the river in early times, 2 and cites Le 

 Moyne's list of animals supposed to have been seen by the French 3 (1565), from 

 which the dog is omitted. On the other hand, Cabeca de Vaca, Treasurer of the 

 expedition of Pamphilo de Narvaez (1527) found dogs 4 among the natives during 

 his wanderings along the coast of northwestern Florida, and in other portions of his 

 journey. He makes no comment as to their origin, as he doubtless would have done 

 had they been pointed out as curiosities, and it is hardly reasonable to suppose that, 

 at so early a period, their derivation can have been from a European source. The 

 bones of dogs are reported from a shell-heap at Tampa. 5 The writer learns, how- 

 ever, that this discovery was superficial. De Soto, who landed at Tampa, had 

 numerous fierce dogs, and found great quantities of dogs among the Indians cf 

 Georgia. Bones supposed to be of the dog are in the stone graves of Tennessee."" 



1 " Fresh Water Shell Mounds of the St. John's River, Florida," page 80. 



2 Log. cit. 



3 " The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca," translated by Buckingham Smith, Washing- 

 ton, 1851, page 41, et al. 

 4 Loc. cit. 



3 " Tampa Suuland and Tribune," November 18, 1876. 



,; Joseph Jones, M. D., " Antiquities of Tennessee," page 9. 



