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In the talus at the foot of the bluff was found a small semiovoid vessel with 

 base perforation made previous to baking. 



OBJECTS FOUND BY OTHERS IN THE GRANT MOUND. 



The reader has probably remarked by this time that hearsay testimony as to 

 mounds and objects discovered in them has not occupied a prominent position in 

 this report. This has not been through lack of abundant supply, but while much 

 of this information is probably correct, much more is confused or not based upon 

 fact. 



During the score of years that the mound has gradually succumbed to the wash 

 of the river, according to those living in the vicinity many curious objects have been 

 gathered by those keeping a watchful eye on the talus, especially after storms. We 

 have seen in the possession of reliable persons living near the mound, masses of 

 Galena, the largest about the size of a closed fist ; various vessels of earthenware ; 

 a discoidal stone, carefully dressed; several polished hatchets of stone; a crystal of 

 quartz about 3 inches in length and 15 inches in diameter, grooved for suspension 

 at the base. Laudonniere refers to u deux pierres de fin christal" as gifts from 

 southern Indians. 



Mrs. Martha A. Millspaugh, residing not far distant from the foot of the Grant 

 Mound, has an interesting collection of objects, all of which, we are informed, were 

 obtained from the sand on the exposed side of the mound. We are indebted to her 

 for a piercing implement of copper, and a portion of another of great interest, since 

 the section at the point of fracture shows it to be formed of numerous thicknesses 

 of thin sheet copper beaten into close contact. These specimens, used for analjsis, 

 will be particularly referred to in our Note on Copper. 



CONCLUSIONS. 



Although we are told by the Huguenot chronicle 1 that various paracoussys, or 

 kings, were in control along the borders of the St. John's, Satourioua, near Fort 

 Caroline (several miles below the Grant Mound), and Outina at a point up the river, 

 which archaeologists have considered to be at or near Mt. Royal, there can be no 

 question that tribes having identical mortuary customs, built the two great mounds 

 to which reference has just been made. 



The unusual size of the mounds, the layers and pockets of brightly colored 



' The graphic story of Laudonniere detailing the ill-fated Huguenot expedition to the new world 

 should be in the hands of all making a specialty of the archaeology of Florida, including as it does minu- 

 test particulars of the manners and customs of the aborigines. 



While the Brevis NarraUo, containing the story in Latin, with plates by Le Moyne de Morgues, a 

 survivor, published by de Bry (Frankfort a M, 1591), or the first French edition of this " Histoire 

 Notable de la Flori.de " (Paris, 1586), or Hakluyt's quaint reudering into English of the same, may not be 

 within easy access to all, the Paris edition of 1853 is readily obtainable, as is the English translation in 

 "Historical Collections of Louisiana and Florida," New York, 1869. We are informed that an English 

 translation with photographic reproductions of Le Moyne's plates was published in Boston some years ago. 

 We have been unable to obtaiu a copy. 



