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and several long bones were exhumed, but no sherds other than superficially, and 

 no other relics, were met with. 



Juniper Creek, Lake County. 



Juniper Creek enters Lake George about 2 - 5 miles west of Volusia Bar. . About 

 1*5 miles above the mouth of the Creek, on the left hand side going up, is a small 

 shell deposit described by Professor Wyman. A southwestern course for a quarter 

 of a mile was followed to reach the mound which was concealed by a thick growth 

 of scrub and trees. Its height was 5 - 5 feet, its base diameter 40 feet. It was com- 

 pletely demolished. There was no stratification. Fragmentary human remains 

 were met with in one place superficially. In another portion of the mound were 

 two coarse earthenware bowls, just beneath the surface, showing the usual base per- 

 foration. With the exception of several fragments of earthenware, lying together 

 at a depth to indicate original deposit, and a number of bits of charcoal throughout 

 the mound, nothing showing the work of man was discovered. 



The results obtained by the excavation of one mound, frequently overturn 

 conclusions derived from the demolition of another. Within 8 miles of the rich 

 pottery bearing mounds of Volusia, and hardly 5 miles distant from Duval's and its 

 interesting neighbor in the pine woods, symmetrical in shape and absolutely intact, 

 the mound near Juniper Creek held out every reason to suppose that a rich reward 

 awaited the archaeologist. 



Astor, Lake County. 



About one-quarter of a mile back of Astor was a small symmetrical mound of 

 white sand. Total demolition yielded nothing beyond a lance point on the base, 4 

 inches in length. 



SAND MOUNDS NORTH OF PALATKA. 



The division at Palatka in this report of the sand mounds of the St. John's is 

 not an arbitrary one, since a little north of that place, comes to an abrupt conclu- 

 sion the great chain of fresh water shell-heaps extending in close succession to the 

 river's source. 1 



It will be observed that, with the exception of the two great mounds not far 

 from the river's mouth, the mounds of the St. John's north of Palatka are of a 

 height considerably inferior to many of those of the upper river. It must be borne 

 in mind, however, that the territory north of Palatka, often early Spanish grants, 

 has long been under cultivation, and that the continuous use of the plow with the 

 aid of the elements has to a certain extent rounded off the summits. Nevertheless, 

 judging from the base diameter also, the mounds of the upper river must have 

 originally exceeded in size most of those to the north of Palatka. 



In this connection it is well to remember that a numerously represented class 

 among the smaller mounds on the St. John's consisted of those where, to a large 



1 American Naturalist, Nov. 1892, page 919. 



