1893.] Shell Heaps of Florida. 717 
At every depth were found gouges and scrapers of shell, many 
unbroken, and columellz of fasciolaria, one 10} inches in 
length. Two and a quarter feet and five feet below the sur- 
face were found two drinking cups, formed from fulgur per- 
versum, with portions of the side and the inner whorls 
removed, a form common enough on the surface and in the 
burial mounds, but very unusual at any depth in the shell 
deposits. Curiously enough, similar drinking cups wrought 
from the conch are in use to-day by the side of springs in 
some of the sea-board southern states. 
Piercing Implements of Bone. 
Mulberry Mound (full size). " Fig. 14. 4 size. 
Ten feet from the surface in perfect condition was a beauti- 
ful chisel fashioned from the lip of strombus. 
Five feet from the surface was found a cardium, unbroken, 
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