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the upper mouth, with a spout, an inch long, at one side. Similar 

 vessels are still made at Benares. The spout of one is grotesquely 

 moulded into the form of a non-descript animal's head. 



37. Three spouts, 2 to 2^ inches long, with everted edges, 

 broken off the sides of pottery vessels. 



38. A globular ewer of black pottery, 4^ inches in diameter, 

 with neck If inch long ; flat-bottomed. 



39. A ditto, 2\ inches in diameter, bearing marks of having been 

 heated over a fire. 



40. Eight earthen clips, flat-bottomed, 3 to 5 inches in diameter. 

 40j. One ditto with its two opposite edges doubled over ; a 



lamp (?) 



41. Eour disks broken off, supposed blowpipes, like No. 33. 



42. A flat disk-shaped shell, perforated in the centre, with its 

 edges turned down, the exterior apparently turned in a lathe, the 

 interior (or upper) surface bearing the original polish, and having 

 an ovoid, not a circular, horizontal section. Apparently fossilized. 



43. A Chinese relic ; being a piece of blue enamelled pottery, 

 2\ inches long, ornamented on one side with straight and circular 

 lines, and perforated with two holes, across one of which, it is 

 broken in two. 



44. A cylinder, 2\ inches long by t 3 q inch in diameter, of green- 

 ish white steatite ; can be used for writing with, on any dark stone. 



45. A cylindroidal piece of onyx, black with white vein, 1 inch 

 long, \ inch mean diameter, perforated along the axis, polished in 

 the lathe. 



46. An ovoid fragment of lilac-grey steatite, 3| inch in mean 

 diameter, \ inch in mean thickness ; its two wider surfaces concen- 

 tric, apparently a portion of a cup about 7 inches in diameter ; the* 

 concave surface bearing striated marks of a turning chisel careless- 

 ly held ; the convex surface carefully turned and ornamented with 

 a double graved line. Perhaps a Chinese relic. 



47. A polished hemispherical gem, resembling prehnite, or exces- 

 sively flawed emerald ; apple green ; smooth all over ; T % inch in 

 diameter. 



48. A broccoli-brown agate bead, T \ inch in diameter, pierced 

 by two conoidal perforations meeting at minute apices obliquely. 



