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cooking and eating, and Wood evidently had a poor 
stomach for “their unoat-mealed broth, made thick with 
fishes, fowles, and. beasts, boyled all together, some re- 
maining raw, the rest converted by overmuch seething to 
a loathed mash, not half so good as Irish boniclapper.”* 
When visiting the English, if offered food, Wood informs 
us they ate “bat little, “but at home they will eat till 
their bellies stand forth ready to split with fullness.” * 
Works of Art. Pottery is poorly represented, only small 
fragments having been found. Like those from other 
parts of the United States, the pots were made of clay, 
with or without the admixture of pounded shells, and were 
imperfectly burned so that the walls are both friable and 
porous. The ornamentation, when it exists, is of the 
rudest kind (Pl. 14, fig. 18), consisting of indentations 
or tracings with a ihalo: point, or, as in some cases, with 
a series of points on one and the same instrument. Bot 
at Crouch’s Cove and Cotuit Port, specimens were found 
in which the lines in the surface had been formed by 
impressing an evenly twisted cord into the soft clay (Pl. 
14, fig. 19), the cord being laid on in various positions- 
This kind of ornamentation has a special interest, since 
there is evidence of its having been made use of in widely 
distant places. We have found similar specimens on the 
banks of the St. John’s in Florida; there are others 
from Illinois, presented to the Peabody Museum by J. 
P. Pearson, Esq., of Newburyport, and others have been 
noticed in the ancient barrows of England.t This kind of 
ornament has given rise to the belief that the pots were 
moulded in nets, which were removed after the vessel was 
finished. - All the specimens we have seen are wanting in 
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_ #New England’s Discovered Rarities. London, 1635. p. 59. 
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