Notes on the shell - mounds at Seaford, Little Swanport

Among the many interesting relics of the Aborigines of Tasmania that yet remain, not the least interesting are the shell- mounds that mark the spot where they formed their encampments and feasted before the intrusion of a white race had disturbed their simple and peaceful modes of living.
Such shell heaps as that to which I am about to refer occur in other parts of the world, and for some time they were supposed to be nothing more particular than ordinary " raised beaches." Even now in Tasmania there are many well-informed people who cannot bring themselves to believe that the shell heaps noticeable in many places on our shores are the kitchen-middens, or " refuse heaps," of the Aborigines of the colony ; and it is for the information of such sceptics that I place on record the following evidence as establishing beyond all reasonable doubt the fact that they are this, and nothing more.