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a considerable depth by carving while the clay was unbaked. The general surface 

 is slightly rubbed down with a polishing stone. Although considerably mutilated 

 this cup is not perforated below. 



A variety of pottery resembling the Pensacola ware in texture and decoration, 

 is represented in this mound by a number of fragments. The paste is dark brown 

 and of gritty texture. The vases have been of medium or rather large size and 

 apparently of somewhat eccentric form, and have been elaborately decorated in in- 

 cised lines and indentations arranged in figures that owing to their fragmentary 

 state cannot be fully made out. The larger fragment shown in Fig. 1, PI. II, con- 

 tains part of a figure very neatly traced and clearly defined by filling the inter- 

 spaces with fine parallel or hatched lines. I take the figure to be a highly conven- 

 tionalized life form, and judging b}^ hints obtained from other specimens in the col- 

 lection the original is possibly a bird. Comparison may be made with Fig. 4, PI. 

 XV. Other fragments are shown in Figs. 2, 3 and PI. II, 4. Ware of this general 

 character and decorative treatment extends westward to Alabama and northward 

 into Georgia. 



Several fragments of painted pottery representing deep bowls or pots, one ol 

 which has a widely and abruptly expanding rim, were obtained from the base of the 

 mound. The red color has been applied with a brush in a thin wash covering the 

 rim in one case, and extending a short distance down the neck or body of the ves- 

 sel. The surface has a moderate polish and the paste is brown and gritty. Speci- 

 mens of similar ware are found all along the Gulf coast from Cedar Keys to Mis- 

 sissippi. 



Two pipes made of coarse yellowish clay were found at a depth of six feet. 

 They are shown full size in Figs. 2 and 3 of Mr. Moore's paper, page 14. 



Objects of this class are exceedingly rare in Florida, only one specimen, and 

 that a fragment, has so far been reported from a shell heap. The specimens figured 

 are of the same make as the ordinary pottery, one being plain and the other embel- 

 lished with the form of a bird perched on and forming a part of the bowl. In gen- 

 eral shape they correspond closely with the prevailing style of pipes in the south 

 and west. 



Mt. Royal. — Mt. Royal, a sand mound near the outlet of Lake George, 555 feet 

 in circumference and 16 feet high, furnished examples of nearly all the ordinary 

 varieties of Avare found in this part of Florida. They are not always typical but 

 may be described under the heads of extemporized ware, stamped ware and incised 

 ware. Fragmentary stamped ware was found upon and near the surface. Vessels 

 were buried with the dead throughout the mound, nearly all being broken, 

 probably by the weight of the sand. 



The Mt. Royal collection contains a large number of the crudely made articles 

 classed under the head of extemporized ware. There is great diversity of shape and 

 many features are wholly eccentric. The size is small and the workmanship of the 

 rudest possible kind, as if the objects had been made in haste as an offering to be 

 cast into the grave with the dead, or as if they were the mere product of unskilled 



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