Notes on the Floridian Peninsula; Its Literary History, Indian Tribes and Antiquities

ITS LITERARY HISTORY, INDIAN TRIBES AND ANTIQUITIES. BY DANIEL G. BRINTON, A. B. ———— PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH SABIN, No. 27 South Sixth Street, above Chestnut. 1859.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by DANIEL G. BRINTON, In the Clerk’s office of the District Court, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS, PHILADA.

TO THE LOVERS AND CULTIVATORS OF THE HISTORY AND ARCHÆOLOGY OF OUR COUNTRY, THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, B Y T H E A U T H O R.


The present little work is the partial result of odd hours spent in the study of the history, especially the ancient history—if by this term I may be allowed to mean all that pertains to the aborigines and first settlers—of the peninsula of Florida. In some instances, personal observations during a visit thither, undertaken for the purposes of health in the winter of 1856-57, have furnished original matter, and served to explain, modify, or confirm the statements of previous writers.
Aware of the isolated interest ever attached to merely local history, I have endeavored, as far as possible, by pointing out various analogies, and connecting detached facts, to impress upon it a character of general value to the archæologist and historian. Should the attempt have been successful, and should the book aid as an incentive to the rapidly increasing attention devoted to subjects of this nature, I shall feel myself amply repaid for the hours of toil, which have also ever been hours of pleasure, spent in its preparation.
Thornbury, Penna., April, 1859.