14 SOME RELICS OF THE INDIANS OF VERMONT. 
and obtained, it may be, by pulverizing granite. This is quite 
brittle, and inclined to crumble, but is made firm by a coating both 
on the outside and inside of the jar, of a fine smooth clay which 
Still bears the marks of some smoothing instrument. The jar is 
very rudely burned, and is much harder near the top than at the 
bottom. The color varies with the degree of exposure to fire. 
The bottom is reddish brown, which grows darker toward the top 
where it is almost black. The interior is considerably darker than 
the outside, being of a uniform black. The general form is very 
symmetrical. The lower third is hemispherical, and without orna- 
ment. Above this the form is compressed so as to be quadrilate- 
ral, and the sides taper towards the top and are quite elaborately 
ornamented. This ornamentation is entirely made up of straight 
lines and rings. Beginning below, we have first a row of deeply 
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impressed rings, running around the jar. These are .37 of an 
inch in diameter, the width of the ring itself .08 of an inch, thus 
leaving a centre of .29 of an inch in breadth. They are all of 
very nearly equal size, though some are more deeply imprinted 
than others, but were evidently made with the same instrument, a 
cylinder of bone probably; then come two lines very near to- 
gether. Above these the sides are covered with a series of 
straight lines running in various directions. Three of the sides 
are very nearly alike, but the remaining side, instead of having 
the V-shaped centre «filled with horizontal lines surrounded by 
oblique and perpendicular lines, has the lines differently arranged, 
as may be seen in Fig. 1, A. The upper edge of each side is bev- 
elled and ornamented by a series of short parallel lines, and a row 
of four or five rings occupies each corner. Above this the body is 
much constricted to form a neck. This is circular and about half 
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