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Florida's burial n 



through the fruitless 



the unsystematic ex pi 



the North. In view of this it would seem fitting To put upon 

 record a comparatively thorough exploration of a somewhat 

 remarkable burial mound previously unopened, and probably 

 unknown to those making scientific investigations in connec- 

 tion with the burial mounds and the shell heaps of the State. 1 



1 The late Jeffries Wyman, in referring to shell heaps not far distant, makes no 

 mention of this mound in his memoir on " The Fresh Water Shell Mounds of the 

 St. John's River, Florida," although carefully indicating all burial mounds coming 

 under his notice. Le Baron, in a long list of the mounds from the mouth to the 

 source of the St. John's (Smithsonian Report, 1882, page 771 et seq.), makes no ref- 

 erence to Tick Island. [It is not included in Thomas' » Catalogue of Prehistoric 



