1893.] Shell Heaps of Florida. 613 
ever that this discovery was superficial. De Soto, who landed 
at Tampa, had numerous fierce dogs, and found great quanti- 
ties of dogs among the Indians of Georgia. Bones supposed 
to be of the dog are in the stone graves of Tennessee.’ 
Lower jaw of dog from Florida Shell Heap, 3. 
Dr. Dall regards it as presumable that the coyote has been 
domesticated along our southern border from time immemor- 
* Dr. Joseph Jones, ** Antiquities of Tennessee,” page 9. 
