THE ST. JOHN'S RIVER, FLORIDA. 



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A number of human bones lay G feet from the surface, near the center of the 

 base, with two crania in contact. All were unaffected by heat, though the remains 

 of a fire, 4 feet in length, were plainly apparent in the sand about one foot above. 

 Among the extinct embers lay considerable portions of a human tibia, a fragment of 

 lower jaw, and other human remains thoroughly charred. 



In various portions of the mound human remains similarly treated were met 

 with. 



Four and one-half feet down, in the western slope, was a pocket of fragments 

 of human bones, unaffected. by fire. With them were small pieces of calcined bone, 

 some of undetermined identity, others of lower animals. 



Fig. 65. 



Fig. 64. 

 Implements of polished stone, mound near Julingtou Creek. (Full size.) 



The reader is referred, in connection with the treatment of human remains in 

 this mound, to "Aboriginal Remains of the Piedmont and Valley Region of Vir- 

 ginia," by Mr. Gerard Fowke. 1 



One cranium (Academy Catalogue, No. 1783) was secured from near the base 

 in fairly good condition. 



STONE, SHELL, AND EARTHENWARE. 



A few bits of Hematite were scattered throughout the mound. On the base, 

 unassociated, were two "celts" of stone, some distance apart, 

 1 American Anthropologist, October, 1893. 



