New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-25

various keys and islands en- route. and will not
miss mound If he knows i. u,u ,aro or,ovsd
a local fame. and occasionally one has peen Opened
to satisfy spasmodic curiosty ana Send ~
Seymour's Point is an eight-pound stone tomahawK'
still ncrusted with the victims blood -
or chiefs residences, found entirely empty.
They are built upon cminence7. traces OF when
are TO be seen at Tampa and elsewhere In the time
of the early Spanish discoveries, they were store
houses for pearls. They must have been very care
Soto Is said 20 have gained bushels of these gems
through the generosity OF the amablc and beauti-
With the New-smyrna mound is connected a
pretty fable Before the Yemassees met the Creeks
in that last battle they sent their young women.
called from their exceeding beauty daughters OF
lovely lake. the shores Of which would yield for
their sustenance berries. vans and anisrs in pro,
traced them 10 the lake but as they approached
the Great Spirit caused the shores TO reeede and
grounds rejoin their husbands. fathers and broth
mounds, though in our youth they were never dis-
turbed. owing to reverence for death ana me
writer recalls the favorie hunting-ground OF old
Chief George, in Putnam County, where Indian
plantation was kept up a mound at the head OF
Etoniah Scrub must be full of relics, the ground
the farmer seldom plants plough or hoe IN the
ground soil without throwing up string OF beads
an arrOW-pOlnt or scrap OF HOccHSn.
Then. too. there Is the shell mound. confined to
the coast and being convenient to the oyster beds,
used by the Indians feeding places. Dig deep
enough and one comes to charcoal and oyster shells;
stratum after tun but does not arrive at the end
of them Occasionally skeleton IL unearthed.
showing that. death having overtaken the redskin,
he was Inferred on the spot as the quickest way OF
We're dug up in the shell Of stoves Island
Judging from the Plies OF shell Of incredible size,
Fort George Island was n favorlte feeding ground
for the Indians from the time IT was created.
Mount Corneia the highest point on the coast south
OF NewJersey Is mentioned as hill, Dut us shape
points ndubitaby to artificial formation. Opened.
what vast. what strange treasures may not that
mighty pile day reveal
Ten Thousand Islands are really 10000 oyster
beds. The largest Is Chocouskee, once the site or
Seminole. bringing his skins and game to the whites
for sale and barter.
This shell is the best fertilizer known, and the
sand blown into the crevces creates SOIL sunlclent
for the growth OF fine fruits and vegetables.
or this shell is also formed that lndes,ructibe sub
stance called coquna. the material of the quaint
gray houses in St Augustine, and many others scat
tered along the east coast OF Florida
The most singular find on record was the cave IN
fernando County last May containing the petrined
bodies OF several Indian chiefs and medicine men.
There evidences OF burial Whatever Iney
sitting log in natural attitudes, as IL In
council. and the marvel that had changed them TO
mon OF stone appeared to have taken place instan-
taneously. Professor Curtis. chemist OF the New
found.and Phosphate Company. was IN Bro9ksvile
the time He expressed his opinion that the cave
had become suddenly flushed with amorphous silica.
paralyzing the Indians and taking complete posses,
sion OF the bodies. II thought that the seeds or
vitality might he 80 well preserved mat II was not
without the bounds Of probability TO restore them 70
flesh and blood 10y means OF electrical science IL
sounds very Nerne-y and brings up conflicting
auns - rgs,sc,,,,ci v,,rriors scalnnr everybody
In reach or paraling the music OF the volunteer
band Having accidentally broken of finger. the
professor tested IT and proclaimed II pure opal 80
the Indians will prove more remunerative dead
than alive