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the patterns, executed with a sharp point, are elaborate and unusu- 

 ally neat. The figures which cover the upper part of the body have 

 little symmetry or continuity, a characteristic of Algonquian work, and 

 consist of spaces and bands tilled witli simple lines, reticulated lines, 

 and heri'ing-bone patterns bordered by plain and zigzag lines. The 

 prevailing outline of these vessels is given in '■. 



A smaller vessel, nearly complete, though broken, is illustrated in 

 d, plate CLViii. It does not ditier in any essential from the preceding, 

 but is smaller and nuich simpler in treatment, and its profile shows a 

 decided angle separating the upper and lower slopes of the liody. 

 The stilus has been used from the inside of the margin to punch out 

 a series of nodes about the exterior of the rim, and an isolated line of 

 indents appears far down toward the conic base. 



An additional example is presented in plate clixc, the outline 

 restored appearing in e of the preceding plate. The diameter ap- 

 proaches 10 inches, and the height must have been a little more than 

 that. The rim is turned sharply outward and minutely notched on 

 the outer edge, the neck has been very slightly constricted, and, as 

 in many better preserved specimens, the base was probably sharply 

 conic. The paste is silicious, moderately fine grained, and yellowish 

 gray in color. The surface is smooth, but without polish. The deco- 

 ration consists of 22 lines of I'oulette markings, imitating coarse cord 

 imprints, encircling the upper part of the body. ,A double line of 

 like markings encircles the body quite low down. 



The largest vessel of which any considerable fragments were recov- 

 ered was originally about 25 inches in diameter and nearlj' the same 

 in height. The surface was finished first with a net-covered tool, 

 the meshes of the fabric being over half an inch in width. The 

 upper part of the body was smoothed sufficiently for the addition 

 of incised figuVes, but not so fully as entirely to destroy the deeper 

 net impressions, and on the lower part and base the imprint is per- 

 fectly preserved. The rim is three-fourths of an inch thick, fiat- 

 tened, and sloped inward alwve, and is decorated, as in many other 

 cases, with cord or stylus imprints. The use of the net and the man- 

 ner of rubbing down the impressions more or less carefully, accord- 

 ing to the needs of the decorator, are identical with cori'esponding 

 features of the Chesapeake and Carolina net-marked wares. fSo closely 

 do some of these specimens resemble those of Popes creek, Mary- 

 land, and Yadkin river, North Carolina, that the reader may be referred 

 to plates cxxx and cxxxvii for details of sliape and ornament. 



A village site at Point Pleasant, on the Delaware. 25 miles above 

 Trenton, has furnished numerous specimens of earthenware. It is a 

 notable fact that some of the fragments gathered by Mr H. C. Mer- 

 cer from the surface or from exposures made by floods are of a 

 stamped ware, resembling very closely the checker-stamp \arieties so 

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