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correctness of the restoration is another question. Some were 

 found in caves, and several are of large size. The peculiar feature, 

 if it proves such, is a protuberance at the base, so that the vessel 

 could only have stood in mud or sand. As figured the greatest 

 diameter is below the middle. One of these, from a cave, is des- 

 cribed as having a mouth diameter of 5 inches, and a body diameter 

 of 9, an unusual proportion in New York vessels. It was also 

 said to have had a protuberance at the base, and three zig-zag lines 

 encompassed the rim, interrupted by four vertical divisions at 

 regular intervals. A large vessel was also figured, and was takeq 

 from a wooded knoll, near the Harlem river, and the ornaments are 

 the same as in Iroquois pottery, but in other ways it differs from that 

 form. It is 18 inches high and 5 inches across the top, and was 

 thus described. ' Around the rim ran a pattern of lines grouped in 

 triangles. The lines are perfectly parallel, and show that they were 

 made with some instrument less primitive than the pointed stick. . . 

 It terminates in a rough little apex that would prevent it from stand- 

 ing upright on anything harder than mud.' 'Some particulars are 

 added not quite consistent with the figure. Several others were 

 described, one having ' a mouth but 5 inches in diameter, with a 

 flaring body almost a foot through, and an almost flat bottom. The 

 rim has a double row of indentations.' These are presumably early 

 articles, but the restoration has been questioned. 



Fig. 125 is a small vessel, represented of actual size. It is 2-^ 

 inches high, with a diameter of 1-^% inches. This is from what 

 is known as the Cayadutta fort, a few miles north of Fonda, being 

 one of the three forts belonging to the three Mohawk clans when 

 they first settled in their New York territory. The site affords faces 

 on pottery, but of a ruder type than usual. This feature connects 

 it with other recent sites, but its age is quite as well shown by a long 

 bead of rolled brass. The vessel figured has an unusual contrac- 

 tion in the center, and the whole work is quite rude. 



To illustrate one form of early Iroquois pottery, fig. 126 is 

 given, being a Canadian vessel found about nine miles northwest 

 of Ogdensburg, N. Y. It has the angular rim, fragments of which 

 are so frequent, and the usual expanded bowl with a rounded bot- 



