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(19.) Known as the " coralline d' Aleppo"; has a great range over the 

 world It is a spheric or cylindric Venetian bead of many sizes, externally 

 red, with a white, whitish, yellowish, or pink interior ; spheric. Length, 

 J inch diameter, or little more. A single bead, among others, from Dos 

 Pueblos and La Patera. A specimen (| inch long, § diameter) was found 

 by Mr. W. H. Holmes in 1875 near the trail on the Mancos River, South- 

 west Colorado. 



(20.) Akin to the preceding, outside red, inside black. Dos Pueblos 

 and La Patera. Plate XIII, Fig. 22. 



(21.) Small yellow; glass fresh looking. Same locality 



(22.) Small white; fresh. Same locality. 



(23.) Two beads about f inch long, i in diameter, of deep blue glass, 

 one alone retaining its polish, with four pentagonal facets at each end, meet- 

 ing in a central, transverse zigzag line. Same locality. I have this variety 

 from graves near Columbia, Pa. 



(24.) A five-sided dark glass bead, | inch long and wide, surface some- 

 what worn. Plate XIII, Fig. 32. Dos Pueblos. 



(25.) Fragment of a large deep-blue oval bead somewhat oxidized and 

 the fracture not fresh; medial diameter f, length probably 1J inches. Dos 

 Pueblos. 



(26.) Spheric, finch diameter, of dark-blue glass; polish deteriorated. 

 La Patera. A smaller specimen of the same character is represented on 

 Plate XIII, Fig. 28. 



(27.) A trifle smaller than the preceding, surface with more polish, 

 mottled with light brown; these parts oxidized upon one side. Plate XIII, 

 Fig. 33. La Patera. 



(28.) A fiat bead of bluish translucent opalescent glass, i inch diame- 

 ter. Plate XIII, Fig. 26. La Patera. 



(29.) Various specimens from La Patera and Dos Pueblos, exhibiting 

 oxidation of the glass from lying in the soil, perhaps for several centuries. 

 Three of a conical shape are represented on Plate XIII, Figs. 16, 17, 

 23, and three others of an oval form in Figs. 29, 30, 31. 



(30.) A blackish purple cylindric bead about an inch long and % inch 

 diameter. La Patera. 



