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horizontal grooves, expanding and contracting^ and thus showing a 

 double undulation. Tiiis is from the same place. Fig. 7 comes from 

 the same site. There is a plain rim with graceful undulations on 

 top. The horizontal grooves have indentations, and there are cross 

 grooves between these and of the same kind. This fragment sug- 

 gests an elaborately decorated vessel. Fig. 8 is quite like the last, 

 and from the same place. The undulations above^ however, have 

 each three narrow grooves, parallel with the rim, and all the indented 

 grooves slope and cross each other, forming a network of 

 diamonds. It is much thicker than the last. 



Fig. 9 is a rare ornamental fragment from the same prolific site 

 on the south bank of the Seneca river. The horizontal groove is 

 broad, deep and obscurely interrupted. Below this are broad slop- 

 ing grooves, distinctly divided by very sharp and narrow walls. 

 The indentations are deepest and walls sharpest on one side, the 

 divisions rounding and sloping on the other. This may not have 

 been invariable throughout. There are forms approaching this. It 

 is interesting to observe how many styles may be found on one 

 spot. 



Fig. 10 is from a fort north of the Seneca river. It is a rim 

 placed at an angle in the plate, the long and straight side being the 

 top. All the indented lines thus actually slope. Part of the divisions 

 in the grooves are angular_, and part are slightly rounded. Both 

 these styles of indented grooves are frequent, but not in combina- 

 tion. Fig. II is a simple zig-zag pattern of small and shallow 

 circular indentations, from the mouth of Dead creek, on the south 

 shore of Seneca river. These small dots often appear, but rarely 

 thus arranged. 



Fig. 12 is a fine and rare rim from Baldwinsville. It has cross 

 grooves above, sloping first in one direction and then in the other 

 below. These are short. Other short diagonal grooves are below 

 these. The fragment is ornamented within. Other fragments of 

 the same vessel are quite different in design, having many elliptic 

 indentations and waving lines. It is not safe to say how a vessel 

 is ornamented throughout from seeing one fragment. 



