1895,] Anthropology. 1037 
the pit which I had cleared of water, broke through into the next one, 
just as the rope was discovered, and the water poured in and flooded 
both the one that had been freed, and the one that had just been 
opened, and not being then sure of the nature of my find, I gave up 
and left off at that point. I caused several other pits to be dug, but 
with little result. 
As I could learn of no similar ancient articles having been discov- 
ered in this region, and as their nature, position and surroundings 
pointed to the probability of their having belonged to some uncivilized 
race who had inhabited this spot centuries ago, I preserved them as 
well as I could, keeping them wet until I was able to show them to ex- 
perts. At the University of Pennsylvania I was fortunate in meeting 
not only Mr. Stewart Culin, but also Mr. Frank Hamilton Cushing,? 
from whom I learnt the antiquity of these relics and the archzological 
value of the discovery. Mr. Cushing, whose experience and knowledge 
of these subjects is probably without parallel, considers them to be of 
pre-Columbian origin, and as, under the direction of Dr. William Pep- 
per, Mr. Cushing is, I hear, to undertake a further exploration, we will, 
I hope, before long, be in possession of fuller information concerning 
the race who made use of them. 
I mentioned, in the earlier portion of this account, a curious cement- 
capped mound which was partially examined by some of the tarpon 
fishers at Naples. The mound had been for some time the subject of 
discussion of the guides and hunters, and had created no small curios- 
ity in the mind of at least one of the guests at the hotel. 
This, as related by them, was the largest of three sandhills near 
Sandhill Bay (lagoon), not far from little Marco. The hills (I write 
from memory) are about a hundred yards apart, and joined by low 
ridges in a slight curve. The story of the guides was roughly as fol- 
ows: 
The mound was the most easterly of the three, and was about 30 feet 
above the sea level, perhaps the highest land between Naples and Cape 
Sable, a distance of 50 miles, excepting one—Caximbas Mound, the 
summit of which may be 40 feet above the sea. It lies about ten or 
twelve miles from Naples and five or six from Marco, and having 
water on two sides at a distance from its centre of about 70 or 80 yards 
on one side, and, perhaps, 100 yards on the other. It had been opened 
1 Director of the Dept. of Archeology and Paleontology of the University of 
. Pennsylvania. 
2? Ethnologist Smithsonian Institute, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 
