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a knife while the clay was soft. Fig. 2 is engraved one-half actual size and repres- 

 ents a small vase with expanding rim, angular shoulder and rough finish. Figs. 1, 

 3 and 4 are part of a series of small perforate cups of most varied shapes found in 

 a large pocket of bright red sand on or below the base of the mound 7 feet 6 inches 

 deep. Six of these cups were set one within another and somewhat fixed together 

 as if baked in that position and not separated until removed from the mound. Two, 

 Figs. 3 and 4, have perforate handles and resemble dippers or ladles. The rims of 

 others are furnished with pointed projections. This set of cups was protected by a 

 large dish which had crumbled beneath the weight of sand. 



Some of the smaller vessels have been slightly rubbed down with a polishing 

 tool, and one or two appear to have been discolored by use. One rude piece resem- 

 bles a large tobacco pipe bowl ; it is reddened and somewhat polished. Another 

 appears to be a bead of irregular, cylindrical form, some two inches long and roughly 

 perforated. Of the same ware is the cup-like piece shown in Fig. 1, PL VI. It is 

 irregular in outline, thick, clumsy and perforate, the rims of both ends being finished 

 in the same careless manner. Another of like form and in fragments was found 

 with it. 



Of somewhat better quality are the two small cups given in Figs. 2 and 3, PI. 

 VI. The bottoms were not made perforate and the finish indicates that they were 

 intended for actual use. They do not, therefore, properly belong in the extemporized 

 group, though made, no doubt, by the same hands. One was found at a depth of five 

 feet and the other at six feet. Corresponding closely in style to the preceding, al- 

 though originally perforate, is the cup illustrated in Fig. 1, PI. VII, while the pe- 

 culiar piece given in Fig. 3 of the same plate is of the ruder type. 



The stamped ware of Mt. Royal and vicinity is of the ordinary variety found 

 in this section characterized by a light surfaced paste dark within and of low speci- 

 fic gravity. The stamped figures are usually of the simplest type. Specimens 

 found in place in the mound or associated with burials are as a rule rather rude, one 

 piece only, the fragment of a large vessel, showing careful work. Specimens found 

 on the surface, usually in small fragments, exhibit much greater variety and many 

 pieces show excellent finish. 



Vessels of this class are nearly all bowls, varying from a shallow, widely flar- 

 ing shape to a globular body with constricted lip. A few pieces give indications of 

 eccentric contour and in cases the lip is expanded into handle-like projections on 

 two opposing sides. Few specimens have exceeded a foot in diameter and the walls 

 are thin, and but for a thickening of the rim, would be extremely fragile. The in- 

 terior surface and rim are rather imperfectly polished down and the stamp was ap- 

 plied to nearly the entire exterior surface. Usually the pattern was a small checker, 

 but curved lines are seen in some of the pieces. 



Pottery apparently of the same make as the stamped ware is in cases under- 

 rated and again is embellished with incised lines exclusively. The rim of a rather 

 rude bowl about six inches in diameter done in the latter style is shown in Fig. 2, 

 PI. VII. The interior and rim are rudely finished with the polishing tool, the ex- 



