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These implements Professor Haynes carefully studied, and 
writes af them as follows : 
“No one of them, in my judgment, resembles the genuine 
paleolithic implements of western Europe, and I am no 
believer in any paleolithic period in North America different 
from that of theold world. By this I mean a time when 
man was living in some regions as the contemporary of ani- 
mals, now extinct or migrated to colder countries, like the 
mammoth and reindeer, and had for his principal tool a type 
of stone implement peculiar in its shape and method of fabri- 
cation and of use. Such implements also show upon their 
surface characteristic indications of their great antiquity. I 
think genuine paleolithic implements, so understood, have 
been discovered in the United States, but yours do not fall 
within that category, in my opinion, although they somewhat 
resemble them in shape. But so also do many objects found 
all over our country which must, nevertheless, be classed as 
rude, or unfinished Indian implements, although they have 
been supposed to be like genuine paleolithic implements, by 
some persons not sufficiently informed upon the subject.” 
FOOD SUPPLY. 
While dredging for specimens of modern shells in the lakes, 
creeks and lagoons in the neighborhood of the St. John’s 
River, the writer had ample proof that the supply of-paludine 
is greater at the present time than has previously been 
reported. Whole lake bottoms are covered with them, while 
they are found in abundance in numerous creeks and lagoons. 
The writer knows by experience that the ampullaria and the 
paludina make a nourishing and not unpalatable soup. Still 
it is probable that the aborigines varied their diet to as great 
an extent as possible. Bones of the dog, the red lynx and a 
member of the sheepshead family of fish, hitherto unreported 
as articles of diet, were discovered in shell-heaps by the 
writer. 
It is difficult to arrive ata conclusion in respect to the 
bison, known to have inhabited Florida within a period of — 
which there is historical record. No bones belonging to 
this animal were found by Professor Wyman, nor has the 
