ANTHROPOLOGY. 695 
ing the plastic clay, and towards the bottom, 
quent use. The exterior of the bottom was somewhat darkened, 
as if by smoke; there was no glazing, and the general color was & 
dark brick red. The dimensions nearly were, height fourteen and 
one-fourth inches, diameter of rim nine and one-half inches, of 
neck eight and one-fourth inches, and of body eleven and one-half 
inches. Capacity about thirteen quarts, beer measure. 
The first finder of the relic shortly transferred his residence to 
a foreign country, and his title tome. Wishing recently to take 
a drawing from this kettle, I found that atmospheric changes had 
caused most of the gummed slips to peel from the interior of the 
work so that it scarcely held together. Chaos might come again 
at any moment. As a first precaution I immediately made a quan- 
tity of duplicate numbers on little squares of paper, and gummed 
them on the outside opposite all the joints; then separated the 
work into nearly its original number of pieces, and rebuilt it with 
new slips, leaving a hole at the top (or bottom rather, as the ket- 
tle stood mouth downwards) large enough to see, and work upon, 
_ the interior. 
