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A few silicified or lignified tree tranks have been found, 
and these, together with occasional leaf impressions occur¬ 
ring in the clay strata of the Chattahoochee group give 
direct evidence of land vegetation in Florida as early as 
the Upper Oligocene. 
Fossil Human Remains in Florida. 
No State has preserved more definite record of its early 
human inhabitants than has Florida. The best known 
human fossils are those which have been obtained from 
the borders of the Little Sarasota Bay along the Gulf 
coast of south Florida. The bones found here are changed 
to limonite. Human remains were reported from this 
locality by Judge Webb of Osprey, Florida, and sent to 
Ihe Smithsonian Institution. During 1886 parts of skele¬ 
tons were obtained by Joseph Wilcox and Angelo Heil- 
prin. Again in 1887, additional remains were collected 
by Joseph Wilcox. The rock here is a thin stratum of 
indurated sandstone lying just below the water's edge. 
Human remains were also obtained from Rock Island 
in Lake Monroe. A fossil skeleton was reported from 
this locality by Pourtalles and Wyman about 1859.* The 
writer has recently obtained a second skeleton from this 
locality. The matrix here is a shell rock. There is no 
evidence that these formations represent other than com¬ 
paratively recent deposits. The associated fossil shells are 
of fresh water species representatives of which live along 
the river at the present time. The skeleton obtained, how¬ 
ever, is firmly imbedded in the rock, and while belonging 
to the recent geological period, is nevertheless historically 
speaking, very old. 
* Wagner Free Ins. Sci. Trans. Vol. II, p. ii, 1889. 
