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under the fame aftonimment when the firfl 

 water-mill was built. They formerly 

 pounded all their corn or maize in hol- 

 low trees, with the above-mentioned pef- 

 ties, made of ftone. Many Indians had 

 only wooden peftles. The blackifh ftone, 

 of which the hatchets and peftles are fome- 

 times made, is very good for a grindftone, 

 and therefore both the Englijb and the 

 Swedes employ the hatchets and peflles 

 chiefly as grindftones, at prefent, when 

 they can get them. 



The old boilers or kettles of the Indians, 

 were either made of clay, or of different 

 kinds of pot-ftone, (Labis ollaris). The 

 former confifled of a dark clay, mixt with 

 grains of white fand or quartz, and burnt 

 in the fire. Many of thefe kettles have 

 two holes in the upper margin, on each 

 fide one, through which the Indians put 

 a ftick, and held the kettle over the fire, 

 as long as it was to boil. Mod of the 

 kettles have no feet. It is remarkable 

 that no pots of this kind have been found 

 glazed, either on the outfide or the in- 

 iide. A few of the oldeft Swedes could 

 yet remember feeing the Indians boil their 

 meat in thefe pots. They are very thin, 

 and of different fizes -, they are made fome- 

 times of a greeniih, and fometimes of a 



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