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CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF 



Sand Mound Near Hitchen's Creek, Volusia County. 



This low mound, with disproportionately large base diameter, is referred to in 

 Part I. 



Having acquired by purchase the small frame house that stood in the way the 

 previous season, we completely demolished the mound, a work of no small difficulty 

 since matted roots of the scrub palmetto impeded investigation. 



The form of burial was of the bunched variety, and neither human remains 

 nor implements lay at a depth from the surface greater than two feet, or somewhat 

 over one foot above the base. As a rule, unassociated with, but occasionally accom- 

 panying human remains, were seven hatchets of polished stone ; a handsomely 

 wrought " sinker" or pendent ornament of the same material, 2-75 inches in length, 



rimmed for suspension on one end and having a central encirc- 

 ling grooved line (Fig. 18); a scraper, so called, of chipped 

 chert, 3 inches in length and a chisel wrought from the lip of 

 a marine univalve, probably Strombus, about 3'5 inches in 

 length, with a maximum breadth of 2 - 75 inches. This chisel, 

 with a median longitudinal groove on one side, is the only 

 ornamented implement of the kind we have met with on the 

 river, and with those from the Tick Island mound, to which 

 reference will be made later, is the only occurrence of this 

 implement in the sand mounds of the river so far as our in- 

 vestigations extend. We have occasionally met with scrapers 

 wrought from Fulgur in the mounds, but the discovery of 

 the shell chisel, in our experience, has been limited to the sur- 

 face of the shell-heaps, and to the body of the shell-heap at 

 Mulberry Mound. 



The mound was almost destitute of pottery, a few small 

 Fig. 18. "Sinker" of fragments, plain and stamped, alone rewarded our search. 



One cranium from this mound (Academy of Natural 

 Sciences' Catalogue, No. 1789) will be described by Dr. Allen 

 in his paper accompanying this Part of our report. 



Tick Island, Volusia County. 



polished stone, Hitch- 

 en's Creek. (Full size.) 



The large mound on Tick Island had been investigated by us upon so 

 many occasions, as detailed in Part I, that farther exploration was impossible with- 

 out disturbance to the score of large bearing orange trees, and to dozens of the 

 smaller sweet and sour varieties of the same species growing upon it. Finally, after 

 considerable negotiation, permission was obtained, and the mound, surrounded on all 

 sides by a party of twenty-two men to dig, with the usual overlookers and searchers, 

 was completely levelled during five days of March, 1894. 



We have described in Part I the structure of this interesting mound. Upon 



