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Fig. 8. — Fine, whitish, light in weight ; on the face a double 



zig-zag pattern in red pigment.* 



Fig. 9. — 13]: in.; coarse, rough, whitish; the face ribbed 

 longitudinally and having a rude pattern of curved bands in 



similar colour as above. A similar fragment, 7^ in. ; Hght in 

 weight, porous, and well-finished; ribs indistinct; no pattern. 



Fig. 10. — io| in. ; coarse, heavy, yellow, vertically striped 

 with red bands. 



Fig. 1 1 . — 9 in. compact, dirty buff; obliquely striped as above. 



Fig. 12. — gin. rather coarse, light buff, beaded along upper 

 edge. Another fragment, similar, 7J in., slightly ribbed. 



Figs. 13, 15, 16, and other fragments, all belonging to vessels 

 ranging from 9 in. to loj in. ; faces ribbed, sometimes strongly so, 

 as in Fig 15 ; coarse, heavy and yellow. 



Fig. 17. — Well-finished, light in weight, whitish. 



In general character, the pastes of the second class, with the 



* This illustration, and all the following ones except the next, are some- 

 what larger than the objects to which they refer. It was the writer's intention 

 that the sketches should be reduced for the press. 



