354 j RAMBLES IN FLORIDA. 
directly opposite from the principal wharf, and presents a 
pleasant appearance ; beyond is the lighthouse, situated upon 
an eminence on Sea-horse Key.  Sea-horses are, probably, 
the only horses in or about Cedar Keys, for at Way Key the 
sole beast of burden, at the time of our visit, was a poor 
cow,* which, harnessed into a dray, was forced to do the 
hauling for the place. "What a commentary upon the pro- 
gressiveness and business enterprise of a community! Our 
regard for the sex made us indignant at beholding the degra- 
dation of the patient brute. 
At the south end of Way Key there is a group of mounds 
of unusual size and elevation; the largest and most south- 
erly presents an abrupt face to the beach, having been par- 
tially dug away. Its height, as seen from this point, cannot 
be far from twenty-five feet: it was, probably, before being 
disturbed, not less than thirty feet; but this, as well as 
others of the group was, like the larger mound near Fernan- 
dina, used for military purposes during the recent war. The 
aggregate thickness of the shell strata with the intercalated 
seams of ashes, upon the southerly side of the principal 
mound, and directly facing the sea, is about twenty feet, 
and composed principally “of the valves of Oysters (Ostrea 
Virginica), while on the north side of the same mound the 
shell deposit is somewhat less in thickness, and largely com- 
posed of the valves of Scallops (Pecten dislocatus?). But it 
must not be understood that the above are the only species 
of shells found here, for numerous specimens of the mam- 
moth Fasciolaria (F. gigantea), and others of the same 
family are represented. Large shells of Busycon perversum, 
and fragments of Quahaug valves (Mercenaria €Mortoni Con- 
rad), are quite abundant. Without a farther enumeration 
... of the species contained in this, the largest of the Way Key 
.  mounds, we will hastily glance at bites near by. Just 


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mi is quite common in the Pacific enge to hear an insignificant person or Laer 
Spo Aor fell m or a “ one-horse town," but a i one-cow town 


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