Nevertheless, as our researches were made with great care and considerable thoroughness, it has seemed well to embody the results in a brief report. To our mind, it is the duty of one destroying an aboriginal landmark to see to it that the results, be they ever so meagre, go on permanent record.
C. B. M.
June, 1896.
ADDITIONAL MOUNDS OF DUVAL AND OF CLAY COUNTIES, FLORIDA
Mound at Arlington.
Mounds at South Jacksonville (2).
Mound at Point La Vista.
Mounds South of Point La Vista (3).
Mound at Mulberry Grove.
Mound at Peoria.
Low Mound at Arlington, Duval County
About three miles below Jacksonville, on the opposite side of the St. Johns, at Arlington, on the property of William G. Matthews, Esq., of Philadelphia, was a low mound in pine woods. We are indebted to W. H. Wilson, Esq., in whose charge the estate is, for permission to investigate.
This mound was not considered of aboriginal origin by the inhabitants of the neighborhood and had sustained no previous investigation though it gave evidence of cultivation in former times; its height of two feet, at the time of our investigation, was probably considerably less than its original altitude. Its shape was irregular, its major and minor axes being respectively 57 feet and 36 feet.
It was totally demolished.
It was composed of yellow sand with the usual admixture of charcoal.