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specimen of the sort ever met with by the writer in à shell 
heap of theSt. John's (Fig. 1). Professor Wyman says (“Fresh 
Water Shell Mounds of the St. John's River, Florida," page, 
i 53): “the mouth of the vase 
is generally flaring, is seldom 
contracted; we have seen no 
instance in which there were 
\) signs of a neck, and only one 
v in which there was anything 
' like a turned lip.. This was 
from Bartram's Mound, and 
was found on the surface 
where it had been thrown out 
Fig. 1. in digging up an orange tree. 
Lipped pottery, Tick Island. (Actual size.) The depth of the hole from 
which it eame was such that it must have been superficial, and 
may have been brought there by the more recent inhabitants. 
This view is confirmed by the fact that the stamped ornaments 
were of a different pattern from anything found elsewhere in 
the mounds, consisting of a series of short parallel ridges 
instead of squares." Bartram's Mound, or Little Orange Mound, 
ison the west side of theSt. John's, oppositethe entrance of Lake 
Dexter, and is not over five miles distant from Tick Island. 
A number of other excavations, some of larger size, yielded 
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