Baron Mound of Flurn 



shells, 1 while the sides of the rid-e are rounded out with smdv 

 loam in which shells are wanting, thus forming a symmetrical 

 mound. Through the layer of shell hut slight excavation was 

 attempted, owing to its gnat compactness, its slope being fol- 

 lowed at about six inches below its surface. The main trench, 

 running in the same direction as the ridge, followed its course, 

 and at the point where the excavation ended, the layers were 

 respectively five, six, and three feet in thickness. 



In the burial mounds at Lake Harney, at the Indian Fields 

 on the Upper St. John's, on Dunn's Island, and at a point on 

 the Eastern bank of the river about eight miles below Enter- 

 prise, no stratification was observed, but these mounds having 



1 Portions of the subject matter of this article are contained in a report made to 

 the Peabody Museum of Archseology, accompanying the bones, pottery and imple- 



1 It is an interesting fact that the shells of the fresh-water snail of the burial 



