THE ST. JOHN'S RIVER, FLORIDA. 



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Four and one-half feet from the surface was a vessel with flaring' rim, without 

 decoration. Four small legs on the curved base had enabled it to maintain an 

 upright position. Part of the upper portion, including about one-half of the margin, 

 was wanting. Approximate height, 4 - 25 inches; diameter at aperture, about 5 

 inches (Plate XXX, Fig. 1). 



About five feet from the surface were five earthenware vessels practically 

 entire, and two in a somewhat fragmentary condition. The imperfect ones pre- 

 sent no features of interest. The largest of the remaining five is a jar with 

 contracted neck and flaring rim, a small portion of which has been removed by a 

 pointed tool in the manner to which reference has been made. Height, about 6 - 5 

 inches; maximum diameter, 5'8 inches; diameter at aperture, 3 - 2 inches (Plate 



XXIX, Fig. 2). 



The other four are unclecorated, save in one instance, where a species of fluting 

 runs at intervals about half-way up the sides. All have base supports or legs, and 

 as this feature is of extreme rarity, not on the St. John's alone but in other sections 

 of the United States, these vessels are all shown full size (Figures 58 and 59 ; Plate 



XXX, Figs 2 and 3). 



In caved sand beneath the summit plateau was a bowl in fragments in associa- 

 tion with a vessel of earthenware, 3 inches in height, having a diameter at aperture 

 of 3"1 inches. This vessel had a novel orna- 

 mentation conferred by pressure, as shown 

 Plate XXX, Fig. 4. 



Two feet down, unassociated, was a por- 

 tion of an object of earthenware, apparently 

 the bowl of a large tobacco pipe (Fig. 60). 



CONCLUSIONS. 



No object in the mound at Racey Point 

 showed evidence of White contact, and we 

 are, therefore, of the opinion that the mound 

 was completed in pre-Columbian times. 



Usina Mound, St. John's County. 



This mound, which was totally demolished 

 by us, lay one-half mile south of Picolata on 

 the river's edge. It was the property of 

 M. P. Usina, Esq., to whom we are indebted 

 for permission to investigate. Its height was 

 3 feet 7 inches ; its base diameter 38 feet. 

 Previous investigators had rendered almost 

 useless the work of exploration. With the 

 exception of a few arrow points, nothing of interest rewarded our search. 



Fig. 60. Bowl of tobacco pipe, Racey Point. 

 (Full size.) 



