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and is characterized by square, oblong, or lozenge-shaped ` 
impressions, regularly arranged, the stamp being of sufi- 
cient size to make a largé number of them at once, but very 
often the figures are confused in consequence of the instru- 
ment having been applied twice to the same region. In one 
case the apex of the spine of a Paludina had been used as a 
stamp. The complex figures on the pieces from St. Johns 
Bluff, consist of combinations of square, with more or less 
rounded or curved impressions, giving the whole surface an 
intricate series of markings, but which we were unable in 
any specimen found, to reduce to a definite plan. They, 
however, resemble in their general style the pottery de- 
scribed by Schoolcraft* as coming from the sea-coast, and 
remind one of Mexican forms, 
The size of the vessels, as indicated by the curvature of 
the fragments, varied from between two and three to twelve 
inches. The more common kinds appear to have been either 
shallow like a common pudding-dish, or deep enough to be 
used as seething-pots, and both are figured in the illustra- 
tions to the Brevis Narratio of Le Moyne.t 
Fig. 1, Pl. 10 (natural size), represents a rude attempt at 
ornament, consisting of two irregular parallel spiral lines 
starting from the same poiht. From Old Enterprise. 
Fig. 2, Pl. 10 (natural size), also from Old Enterpn®. 
In this, as was not unfrequently the case at the locality 
mentioned, straight lines are combined with indentations 
made with a round point. : 
Fig. 3, Pl. 10 (natural size), represents one of the nif 
stances of complex figures from St. Johns Bluff. This wa 
made either by one large complicated stamp, OT by as 
of different stamps, since none of the details are exactly Te 
peated. ; 
Articles of Shell and Bone. The natives of the upper a iy 
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tions of the river were in constant communication wi 

*North American Indians, Vol. III, Pl. XLV. 
5. 
tDe Bry, Hist. Amer. Francforte ad Mæœnam. Pars. 2da, pP- 4 and 
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