THE ST. JOHN'S RIVER, FLORIDA. 



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The line of the base was considerably below the level of the surrounding ter- 

 ritory. Upon it was a layer of sand from one to two feet in thickness, blackened 

 by fire and filled with charcoal. In this layer lay many oyster shells and several 

 bones of the lower animals, among which were remarked part of the shell of a 

 turtle, the lower portion of the femur of a deer, etc. A slight sprinkling of char- 

 coal was apparent throughout the mound. Above the dark layer was sand of a 

 yellowish hue to the thickness of about one foot, and this was surmounted by a 



Fig. 66. Tobacco pipe of coquina, Mound on Mandarin Point. (Full size.) 



stratum 4 feet in thickness at the center of the mound, pink in color, and even at 

 times a bright cherry, through admixture of Hematite, 



Human remains were of infrequent occurrence. 



Five celts were met with separately, apparently unassociated with human 

 remains, from one to two feet from the surface. One was buried in a pocket of 

 scarlet sand; another, very symmetrical, has a length of 10-75 inches, the longest 

 from Florida to come under our notice, though implements of this character 13 and 

 14 inches in length are reported from other sections. 



Unassociated, about one foot from the surface, was a tobacco pipe of coquina 

 with original fracture of the bowl. It was additionally injured by the blow of a 

 spade (Fig. 66). 



Nothing in this mound in any way pointed to White contact. 



Doctor's Lake, Clay County. 



Near the northwestern extremity of Doctor's Lake, at a settlement named 

 Peoria, is a low mound of yellow sand, the property of a native called Silcox, whose 



