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ture 5-5 inches; height 4-2 inches; of the smaller, maximum diameter 5*5 inches; 

 diameter of aperture 45 inches; height 2-7 inches. 



Near the base was a portion of a bird effigy of earthenware representing the 

 forepart of the body with the head and neck extending vertically. The intended 

 likeness is not apparent. 



It will be noted that no "freak" pottery was met with in the Tick Island 

 mound, nor, with one exception — a small fragmentary vessel found superficially — 

 was any perforation discovered made previous to baking. 



One point of great interest in connection with the earthenware of the Tick 

 Island mound must be noticed here. As we have stated, the mound of sand is 

 constructed upon a base of shell. Whether this shell base was a shell-heap pre- 

 existing at this place, utilized for the construction of the mound, as was the case at 

 Thursby Mound, at Ginn's Grove, at Thornhill Lake, and at the Indian Fields, we 

 are unable to decide, though indications point to a negative conclusion, based upon 

 the facts that the shell does not extend beyond the mound, as is the case at other 

 localities, and that a long causeway of shell running through swampy ground con- 

 nects the shell base with higher territory farther back. In any event, this mass of 

 shell, which at the centre of the mound attained a height of five feet, whether a 

 pre-existing shell-heap on the spot or a mass of shell-heap material brought from 

 elsewhere, preceded the period of the construction of the sand mound. In the 

 shell was fibre-tempered ware, totally dissimilar from sherds found in the sandy 

 portion of the mound, or in any sand mound of the river, though its presence is 

 noted in the neighboring shell ridges. We shall allude to this again in Notes and 

 Conclusions. 



CANINE EEMAINS. 



The researches of Professor Wyman failed to discover canine remains in the 

 shell heaps of the St. John's. The jaw of a dog found by us in a shell heap of the 

 upper river is figured and described by Professor Cope in our paper in the Naturalist 

 for July 1893. Subsequently, another canine jaw of undetermined variety was 

 exhumed by us from another shell-heap. 



In the shell base of the Tick Island mound were skeletal remains as to which 

 Professor Cope writes : " The bones you send are those of a dog, but of what species 

 I am not sure. It is not wolf nor coyote, but differs from ordinary breeds of 

 domestic dogs. Nevertheless, it may be some form domesticated b}^ the Indians 

 with which I am not familiar." 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



On the central portion of the base, in immediate asso- 

 ciation, were two fiat pieces of coquina, a pebble hammer, a 

 portion of a columella of a large marine univalve, rounded at 



Fig. 32. Shark's tooth e ither end, and the tooth of a shark, perforated at the base as 

 with perforation, Tick . m . ... 



Island. (Fullsize.) for suspension (.big. 61). 



