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



By Clarence B. Moore. 



part II. 



Preface. 



Since the preparation of Part I of this report, seven additional months ot 

 continuous work, with a large body of assistants, in a flat-bottomed boat with 

 steam motive power, have been devoted to the sand mounds of the St. John's. The 

 river has now been many times carefully covered by us from Lake Washington to 

 the sea — practically from its source to its outlet — with a boat of so light a draft 

 that almost no contiguous lagoon or tributary creek has been left unvisited, and 

 the employment of native guides and printed promises of reward widely distributed 

 have, we believe, brought to our notice every mound of any importance bordering 

 the river. Where these mounds have not been leveled to the base, the fault has 

 not been ours. 



Many mounds of little general interest, we fear, are detailed in this part of 

 our report, but as the St. John's can never again furnish such material for any 

 extended scientific notice, and as archaeologists coming after us will require the 

 fullest records for their work, everything has been included. Nor have we con- 

 fined ourselves to references to articles characterized by rarity or unusual work- 

 manship, which, taken alone, would give an incorrect and exaggerated idea of the 

 general possessions and state of advancement of the builders of the mounds, but 

 we have endeavored carefully to enumerate all objects found in these relics of the 

 past. 



Sincere thanks for kind assistance are extended to Andrew E. Douglass, Esq., 

 to Professor James Douglas, to Professor Cope, to Dr. E. Goldsmith, to Professor 

 Putnam, and to General Gates P. Thruston. Indebtedness is again acknowledged 

 to Dr. M. G. Miller for valuable aid during all our field work and in the prepara- 

 tion of this report. 



C. B. M. 



August, 1894. 



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