One small mound, partly dug through, was found on the Florida side on the property of Mr. Haddock, and another, about 2 feet in height, was seen at the “Brick Yard” a few miles east of King’s Ferry. So well known along the river was this insignificant earthwork that it was evident that no mound of importance is likely to have escaped our inquiries, made as they were at all points where habitations were apparent.
No shell-heaps were noticed on the banks.
Numbers of stones and fragments of rock proved to be ballast from timber schooners, and not indigenous to the territory.
NOTES
[1] Mr. Douglass informs us that in his exploration of more than forty sand mounds on the east Florida coast, from the St. Johns river to Miami—a distance of 375 miles by water—he has never found an article of European manufacture.
[2] “Some Characteristics of the Indian Earth and Shell Mounds on the Atlantic Coast of Florida,” The American Antiquarian, March, 1885.
“Earth and Shell Mounds on the Atlantic Coast of Florida,” same journal, May, 1885.
“A Find of Ceremonial Weapons in a Florida Mound, with Brief Notice of Other Mounds in that State.” From the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol. XXI.
[3] Coquina, a formation of sand and minute shells and fragments of shells.
[4] For figure and description see American Naturalist, August, 1893, page 716. “Certain shell heaps of the St. Johns River, Fla., 4th paper.”
[5] There are two mounds on Spruce Creek. The one not referred to here is described by Mr. Douglass in the first part of his article, “Earth and Shell Mounds on the Atlantic Coast of Florida,” American Antiquarian, May, 1885. Details of the Stone House, or Rock House mound, as it is variously called, are given in the same paper.
[6] The reader is referred to “A Gold Ornament from Florida,” by A. E. Douglass, American Antiquarian, January, 1890.