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 Oblong burial urns. 



Dominga, was about four hundred yards, a little west of south, from the house, 

 and ninety from the lake. The lava here was nearer the surface, the surface itself 

 being lower than at Campo Santo. There was no ash of consequence immedi- 

 ately over the black sand, which was here underlying the lava. Under the sand 

 was the usual hard ash. The continuous excavation was about twenty-five yards 

 long, fifteen or twenty feet wide, and three or four feet deep, with a ditch offset 

 towards the lake at each end. The lava in some cases seemed to have run and 

 hardened around the urns, though this was not sufficiently well defined to be 

 positively asserted. One jar had some underneath. If, as is probable, the burials 

 were in the lake beach, the sand may have been washed from around it prior to 

 the eruption, or in the violent agitations which accompanied it. Many of the 

 urns, which were damp and soft when first exposed, had been broken by the roots 

 of trees growing through the cracks. The cinder was looser and less well defined 

 immediately above the jars. I believe it hardly possible that it was cut through 



