Excerpt from Crania From the Mounds of the St. John's River, Florida: A Study Made in Connection With Crania From Other Parts of North America Indian graves in Florida and presented by him to the Academy, five were found in sufficiently good condition to describe.1 The numbers of these skulls in the cata logue are as follows: base of mound at Ginn s Grove; and Thursby Mound; base of mound near Tar Landing; and mound at. Hitchen's Creek, Volusia County. These numbers will be used to designate the specimens in this essay. The specimens were almost entirely without animal matter, if one could so conclude by their fragility, peculiar lightness and pot - like resonance. Mr. Moore had carefully coated the skulls with shellac varnish, which, while serving to protect them, concealed the texture in some degree. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.