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                                 NOTES

                                ON THE

                         FLORIDIAN PENINSULA;

                                  ITS

                           LITERARY HISTORY,

                    INDIAN TRIBES AND ANTIQUITIES.

                                  BY

                       DANIEL G. BRINTON, A. B.


                             PHILADELPHIA:
                      PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH SABIN,
              NO. 27 SOUTH SIXTH STREET, ABOVE CHESTNUT.
                                 1859.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by

                          DANIEL G. BRINTON,

      In the Clerk’s office of the District Court, in and for the
                   Eastern District of Pennsylvania.


                   KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS, PHILADA.




                                TO THE

                        LOVERS AND CULTIVATORS

                                OF THE

                HISTORY AND ARCHÆOLOGY OF OUR COUNTRY,

                               THIS WORK

                      IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

                            BY THE AUTHOR.




PREFACE.


The present little work is the partial result of odd hours spent in the
study of the history, especially the ancient history--if by this term I
may be allowed to mean all that pertains to the aborigines and first
settlers--of the peninsula of Florida. In some instances, personal
observations during a visit thither, undertaken for the purposes of
health in the winter of 1856-57, have furnished original matter, and
served to explain, modify, or confirm the statements of previous
writers.

Aware of the isolated interest ever attached to merely local history, I
have endeavored, as far as possible, by pointing out various analogies,
and connecting detached facts, to impress upon it a