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evidences of having been worked by human hands can be picked up 

 in the bed of a neighboring stream. All along the high bluffs on the 

 sea side and in the bank of an adjacent inlet layers of pottery occur 

 and several fragments of bowls were picked out of the cliff. Super- 

 ficial indications show great possibilities when systematic excava- 

 tions ai'e made at this place. One or two mortars with surfaces 

 hollowed out, but too large to be moved any considerable distance, 

 were seen lying at the base of the bluff or on the top. Not only 

 pottery fragments, but likewise shells, fragments of tests, and claws 

 of crabs occur with human bones mingled with the fragments of 

 pottery. 



The Oberland midden lies near Oberland village and is approached 

 by a good road from (ieorgetown. This portion of St. Vincent suf- 

 fered greatly from the eruption of Soufriere volcano in 1902, and 

 many estates were destroyed, the inhabitants being asphyxiated by 

 poisonous gases. A road cut through the bank in descending to a 

 small stream exposed a section of the midden and revealed terra 

 cotta or pottery heads, some of which have been washed into the 

 ravine below by rains. This site shows evidences of a settlement 

 of considerable size, and would well repay systematic excavation. 



The surface of the Argyle midden has been cultivated many years 

 and is now covered by fields of arrowroot. It lies to the left of the 

 road shortly before crossing the bridge over the Yambou River going 

 north, and can be followed for some distance on the way to the 

 Yambou pictographs. Nothing of great importance has been ob- 

 tained from this midden, although fragments of pottery are not rare 

 on the surface. 



PICTOGRAPHS 



Following up the river to the narrow defile, Yambou Pass, a trail 

 leads to bowlders on which were cut some of the finest pictographs 

 in St. Vincent.'" They overlook the beautiful stream which here 

 flows between two high cliffs amidst fascinating scenery, with tall 

 palms and other tropical vegetation. The valley at this place is 

 sparsely cultivated, and to reach the Yambou pictographs one has 

 to cross a ditch several times which feeds a sugar-cane mill lower 

 down the valley. It is, however, possible to drive directly to the 

 pictographs or to within a short walk, although the road is obscure 

 and ends rather abruptly. 



Pictographs recorded by Mr. Huckerby occur in St. Vincent at the 

 following localities: (1) Pass leading into Mesopotamia Valley at 

 Yambou Pass; (2) Layou; (3) Villa: (4) Buccament Valley; (5) 

 Barrouallie; (6) Petit Bordel. 



«2 These are flgrured by Rev. Tbomas Huckerby in Amer. Anthrop., n. s, vol. xvi, pp. 

 238-244. 



