j6 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
for some miles in a general southwesterly direction. Paralleling the main canal 
and on the north side of it there is also a third canal which reaches inland about 
one-eighth of a mile. The banks of these three canals which contain large 
masses of the particular deposit which Chamberlin regards as the source of the 
bones, have been carefully searched by the writer and others and no vertebrate 
fossils have been obtained. It appears, therefore, that the formation from which 
Dr. Chamberlin would derive the bones is almost if not entirely non-fossiliferous. 
In view of this fact is it to be believed that the abundance of bones found in 
the stream bed have washed from this formation?* 
In this connection the condition of the fossils themselves may be called into 
evidence. Both Drs. Hrdlicka and Chamberlin have referred to the relative 
completeness of the human skeletons, but there is obviously no point in this 
reference that will support the theories advanced by either of them. All of the 
human bones have been submitted by the writer to Dr. Hrdlicka who states that 
he recognizes the presence of five individuals. One of these is represented by a 
single molar tooth; another by a single toe bone, while of another nothing 
appears to be known other than an incisor tooth. Obviously these three indi¬ 
viduals could not have been represented by more fragmentary material. Of the 
two remaining individuals but an imperfect representation of the skeleton of 
each has been obtained, including twenty-six bones of the one and of the other 
scarcely so many. 
Of the extinct wolf, Canis ayersi, thirty or more bones of a single individual 
have been found at one place, while near by was obtained the skull and femur 
probably of the same individual. The skeleton of this extinct animal is more 
fully represented, therefore, than is that of any one of the human skeletons. 
The extinct armadillo-like genus, Chlamytherium, is represented by a lower jaw, 
a bone from the skull and many dermal plates, all found at one place and prob¬ 
ably all belonging to a single individual. The extinct stork, Jabiru weillsi, is 
represented by a humerus, part of a corocoid, part of two ulnas and two meta- 
carpals, all found at one place and probably from one individual. Extinct turtles 
are represented by all or by parts of the carapace so fragile as not to withstand 
secondary deposition. The mastodon is represented by a part of the skull and 
tusk as well as a lower jaw and by teeth. The elephant is represented by whole 
teeth and by parts of the skeleton. The tapir is represented by a practically 
complete skull. There is in fact, as the writer has heretofore stated, no essential 
difference either in the completeness of the skeleton or in the manner of preser¬ 
vation between the human bones and those of the associated animals. 
There remains the objection advanced by MacCurdy that the 
deposits containing the human remains are comparatively recent 
and are not to be referred to the Pleistocene period. This conclu¬ 
sion as presented by MacCurdy applies particularly to stratum No. 3, 
in which human remains were abundant. The human remains and 
*Since the above was written the deposits in question have been re-examined 
by Dr. Chamberlin, the writer and others and further shown to be non-fossili¬ 
ferous. 
