576 The American Naturalist. [July 
In the white sand layer were found bits of pottery in 
immediate association with every skeleton, many plain, some 
rudely ornamented in the same manner as those found in the 
stratum above. 
One piece found near the bottom of the white sand layer 
bore a pattern not met with by me in any other sand mound 
or in several hundred excavations in shell heaps on or near 
the St. John’s. (Fig. 1.) 
At forty-two feet from the circumference of the base and ten 
feet from the surface of the mound, at the bottom of the white 
sand layer, with the crumbling bones of a skeleton was found 
in perfect condition a small earthenware pot with sides deeply 
grooved, of a pattern entirely unfamiliar to me. (Fig. 2. 
Fic. 2; 
Pottery decorated with knobs, of which several specimens 
were found last year, was not met with during these supple- 
mentary investigations at Tick Island nor have I seen them 
on or below the surface in mound or shell heap on the St. 
John’s River between Palatka and Lake Washington, a dis- 
tance by water of about three hundred (300) miles. This 
knobbed pottery was sent to the Peabody Museum of Arche- 
ology and a report from the very high authority there could 
not fail to be of interest. 
