Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . showing occasional signs of mottling andcontaining scattered particles of charcoal and at least one worked fragment ofchert. There was no definite base line, and how much of this white sand mayhave been filled into a previous excavation there was no method to determine. 516 TWO SAND MOUNDS ON MURPHY ISLAND, FLORIDA. During the entire investigation but seven burials were encountered, all of thebunched variety and none deeper than 5 feet from the surface. In associationwere several small bits of pottery, a chipping of chert, and, toget
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . showing occasional signs of mottling andcontaining scattered particles of charcoal and at least one worked fragment ofchert. There was no definite base line, and how much of this white sand mayhave been filled into a previous excavation there was no method to determine. 516 TWO SAND MOUNDS ON MURPHY ISLAND, FLORIDA. During the entire investigation but seven burials were encountered, all of thebunched variety and none deeper than 5 feet from the surface. In associationwere several small bits of pottery, a chipping of chert, and, together, two pins ofbone. Occasional sherds were in the midden refuse, and two small imperforate bowlswere found separately in the same material. A few arrow heads lay loose in thesand and in the loam. This curious mound, evidently a place of abode during two extended periods,had been subsequently used, to a small extent in the upper portion, for sepulchralpurposes. In default of total demolition we do not feel justified in drawing conclusionsas to this SUMTER MAP OF THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER X Indicates Sand Mound Scale i n tnilesi 2 3 1 T CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER, FLORIDA. By Clarence B. Moore. The Ocklawaha River, whose narrow, winding and rapid current enters the from the western side of that river, about twenty-five miles above Palatka,has its source in Lake Apopka (see map) though the head of navigation is at thechannel between Lakes Eustis and From Lake Apopka, running in a north-erly direction, it traverses Lake Dora, Lake Eustis and Lake Griffin and continuingfirst through marsh and then through swamp land and joining Orange Creek, anunnavigable stream, it turns abruptly to the east, pursuing this course until itsunion with the St. Johns. Passing through a portion of Lake County, traversing the county of Marionand skirting on the south about one-half of Putnam County, the Ocklawaha, irres-pective of curves, has a length of about seventy-
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