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also covered on the outside with a coating of the same prepara- 
tion, which extends for the depth of about one inch below the 
neck, over which is a second and thicker coating of glaze of a 
cream color with greenish cast. With this exception the outside 
is unglazed. In applying the glazing, some of the material has 
streamed down the side of the vessel, which is also spotted in 
several places with drops of the vitreous substance. The glazing 
is in an excellent state of preservation, though marked with the 
reticulation of fine cracks such as may be seen in even 
modern pottery when it has been in use for a considerable length 
of time. The entire workmanship of the specimen is of a much 
rougher and ruder character than the fact of its being glazed 
would imply. On the outside, at a point 2.30 inches below the 
contracted neck, occurs an annular indentation, the greatest 
diameter of which measures 0.54 inch, its least diameter being 
0.52 inch. This, which, with the exception of the border of 
glazing around the neck, is the only attempt at anything like 
ornamentation in this piece of pottery, has some indication of 
being the personal stamp or brand of the maker. : 
It is believed th-t this is the first vessel of glazed pre-historic 
pottery taken from a mound in Florida, or perhaps from one in 
any other part of the United States, or at least the first east of the 
Rocky Mountains, of which any account has been given. Wyman 
makes no mention of such, though he speaks of having “ found 
indications that some at least of the vessels were made by coiling 
up long cylinders of clay, and afterwards pressing and welding 
them together.” Dumont, in his elaborate account of the manu- 
facture of pottery by the Indians of Louisiana, though accurately 
describing the forming of vessels by spirals made with cylinders 
of clay, is silent as to glazing. And so also with other writers. 
Some, indeed, make mention of glazing; but it is evident from 
their own explanations that simply a polishing and painting of 
the articles is meant, and not the vitreous coating to which the 3 
term in general is understood to apply. ae 
It only remains to say that it is probable that the glaze on this 
peculiar vessel was produced by the use of salt. At least it is not 
of a calcareous nature, the test of acid failing to provoke effer- 
vescence. 
Since writing the foregoing, my attention has been called by 
Mr. E. A. Barber to his interesting account in the AMERICAN 
NATURALIST for August, 1876, of the Pueblo pottery of the Far 
West, some of which is finely glazed, and which is found scat- 
tered over the surface of the country for hundreds of miles, though 
chiefly in the vicinity of the old mural ruins. A comparison of a 
this highly advanced and probably much more modern pottery 
_ with the vessel here described, taken from an ancient mound io | 
_ Florida, is not without its suggestiveness. Particularly is this the 
case from the fact that it is known that the modern Pueblo Indians 
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