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the larger vessels may be styled a net-pattern. It is 

 formed by square or rhombic indentations, regularly 

 arranged, so as to form a reticulated design. Similarly 

 baked and ornamented pottery is found in all old 

 Indian sites in Eastern America. Among the Mic- 



Fig. 22. FRAGMENTS OP POTTEEY (REDUCED). (Site of Hochelaga.) 

 (a, b, c, d) Basket patterns. (e) Net pattern. (/) Corn-ear pattern. 



macs and New England tribes it is usually ruder than 

 that of Hochelaga, corresponding to the supposed 

 oldest types of the European caves and barrows. The 

 Iroquois, Hurons, and Eries had the same types with 

 those of Hochelaga. The old Alleghans, or mound- 



