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provided by the local ecology. No large village or peruanent
settlements are found; the sitos appear uniformly to have been
campsites.
The survey was led to the site of Vhaleyts Mill by the
finding some years ago by a local resident sportsman of a
rusted flintlock gun, projecting from the bank. Reconnaissance
resulted in no surface findings of significance for any historic-
Indian contacts or evidences on the site but did uncover some
evidence of multiple site occupation belonging to the more
remote prehistoric periods. It is still possible that more
extensive testpitting or trenching on the site night disclose
such evidence as the recent saw mill operations have churned up
a fair proportion of the strategic terrain and have masked the
ground with industrial debris including sawdust and reject
burned timber. 9SelO is just across the line into Seminole County
and within four miles of the junction of the Flint and Chattahoochee,
thus within the critical or historical logistical area in which
the Seminole Indian farmers and refugees were congested in the
17th and 18th centuries. One of the objectives of survey was to
pinpoint an important early 18th century ufort” shown on early
traps to be in the “Forks”. The highpoint on the bluff at Nhaleyts
Mill put this site within the suspected territory. The search
for the “Apalachicola Fort” was abortive, except that data was
secured on early Seminole farmsteads which Lewis Ii. Larson and
A. R. Relly have recently reworked with a view to publication as
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