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any way affect their original condition. No glazing appears on'the pot- 

 tery, and yet it is of a bard, firm, and durable substance which is im- 

 pervious to water. One piece of pottery is about four inches square, 

 but of an irregular shape. At one point it is shown to be a part of the 

 top of a wide-mouthed vessel, evidently about two inches less in diam- 

 eter at the neck than al the top. Judging from the arc described by the 

 piece in question, the neck of the vessel must have been at least 18 

 inches in diameter. This piece also shows attempts at ornamentation, 

 having a horizontal row of dots or beads about an inch and a half from 

 the top of the vessel; these have the appearance of being made by 

 punctures from the inside or the vessel, and are about half an inch apart, 

 or seven eighths from center to center. There are also parallel lines run- 

 ning about it horizontally about half an inch apart, which have evidently 

 been made by some blunt instrument about one-eighth of an inch square 

 pressed into the clay, leaving little ridges between each impression of 

 the in si run lent that would average about one-sixteenth of an inch 

 thick. There are a number of small pieces; one showing distinctly 

 the neck, and rim of the vessel above it, to be quite flaring; but this 

 rim does not show entire. The rim is ornamented by diamond-shaped 

 figures, made by lines crossing each other, which lines are formed very 

 much like the parallel lines in the larger piece. Another piece shows par- 

 allel lines. One small piece is corrugated as the Ely Ford pottery, and 

 shows distinctly the application of heat sufficient to fuse the silex in the 

 composition of the pottery, making it a very hard and firm substance; 

 this piece is thinner than the baked pieces. Another piece shows bead 

 work distinctly about an inch from the top of the vessel; the body of 

 the vessel ornamented with parallel lines running at right angles with 

 the top of the vessel, made as in the first piece described, and the top 

 itself ornamented in the way our mothers ornamented the edge of a pie. 

 Several other pieces show the application of heat sufficient to fuse the 

 silex used in their composition. 



Several pieces, including the larger one described above, show on the 

 edges glittering particles which appear to be small pieces of isinglass. 

 This pottery was nearly all found on the surface of the ground, having 

 1>, ■en washed out by the action of the water. In the river bank in front 

 of the village is also a bed of ashes and charcoal about 3 inches in depth 

 and about 2 feel from the surface of the ground. 



PREHISTORIC EVII)E\CES IX MISSOURI. 



By G. C. Broaduead. 



In many portions of the State of Missouri we find evidences of the 

 existence, in years long past, of a now extinct race, in the form of rock 

 vaults, earth mounds, stone axes, flint arrow and spear heads, and bones. 

 In Pike County my attention was directed to an ancient walled burial 



