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to the original level, develoi)iiig the fact that it was a burial moiiud. 

 The bones were so greatly decayed as to render it impossible to preserve 

 even any fragments of the skulls. Large numbers of fragments of 

 pottery were found, but no whole vessels. The material and many 

 of the m'arkings resemble those of specimens, already referred to, from 

 the old cemetery on the margin of the river, distant about 300 yards. 

 Judged from the fragments, the majority of the vessels would hold 

 about 2i gallons each. One, however, was not much larger than the half 

 of a cocoanut-shell and of about the same shape. Fig. 21. 



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Fig. 22. PotUiy fragments li-um nionntl ne;ir Isaples, 111. 



It is of a dark color, about one-quart-er of an inch thick, symmetrically 

 made, and ornamented with lines about the sixteenth of an inch in depth, 



