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seen to l)e repeated in a marked manner, and the merest details must 

 be relied upon to separate sherds fi'om the two distant regions, if. by 

 accident, tliey become interminglcHl. 



Tlie Iroquoian group will be treated in a separate section, while the 

 northern and eastern Algonquian territory may l)e reviewed as care- 

 fully as tlie meager collections and inct)mplete obser\"ations at hand 

 will permit. 



In the rather imperfect liglit of present knowledge, we may to best 

 advantage consider the ceramic work of this great province under 

 heads which express something of geographic culture grouping. Fii\st, 

 we have the Middle Atlantic province, which, for comparative study 

 of details, may be further separated into several subdi\-isions, the 

 principal being the Chesapeake-Potomac region, which presents a well- 

 defined unit, geographically, culturally, and ethnically." Second, 

 there are the entire New Jersey and New England areas. The first of 

 these appears to be divided somewhat between the Delaware valley and 

 the coastal districts, while in the second collected data are so meager 

 that little can l)e done in the way of systematic technic or comparati\'e 

 study. These Atlantic provinces are indicated approximately on the 

 accompanying map, plate iv. Third is the Ohio Valley pro^•ince, in 

 which we shall have two or three sulidi visions of fictile remains which 

 are not distinct geographic groups, one of them, at least, extending far 

 to the west in a succession of areas. Fourth, we have the Upper Mis- 

 sissippi and Missouri Valley provinces, so far little studied: and fifth, 

 the region of the Great lakes, of which we have only fragmentary bits 

 of information. 



Pamlico-Albemaklk Wauk " 



South Appalachian forms of ware prevail throughout Georgia and 

 South Carolina, save along the coast, where the simple textile-marked 

 wares of the North extend far southward, gradually diminishing in fre- 

 quency of occurrence. Southern forms prevail largely in North Caro- 

 lina, giving way farther north and in the region of the great sounds 

 and their tide-water tributaries to other forms apparently showing 

 Algonquian handiwork or infiuence. The change from southern to 

 northern tyjDcs is rather gradual, which may have resulted from eon- 

 tact of peoples living contemporaneously in neighboring districts. In 

 some cases all varieties are found together, as in the Lenoir mounds in 

 Caldwell county. North Carolina, the village sites of the Yadkin, and 

 elsewhere. The intermingling does not consist exclusively in the 

 assemblage of specimens of separate groups of ware, as if people from 

 diflerent sections had successively^ occupied the sites, but features 

 typical of these sections are combined in the same group of vessels, 

 or even in the same vessel. 



« In the illnstriitioDs all tho pottery of tlio Mjdrile Atlantic provinof has heoii classed as <ii* the 

 Chesapoake-Potomae group. 



