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of them a few hours after they are dug out. They average in size 
about 4 feet 6 inches in length and 2 feet 6 inches to 3 feet in width 
and depth. 
I decided to dig in the direction of the shore, that is, between the last 
pit opened—from which we removed the water—and the nearest ex- 
posed shell-bank, perhaps 20 feet away. 
Hardly had two barrow-loads of the earth been taken out when the 
finding and excitement, on my part, at least, began. One after another 
they came, the first of importance being a wooden tray or trencher, the 
rounded feel of which at first made us believe that we had found a 
canoe, two spikes of a fish, etc. 
The trencher (See Plate XX XV) (which, with other of the articles- 
found, is now in the British Museum) is of wood, in shape oval, with 
ends extended, squared and notched to form handles for the fingers to 
grip more readily. It is hollowed out and was well made. Underneath 
it is flattened, so that placed on a level surface it is capable of being 
rocked lengthways only. It is in a good state of preservation. Its 
length is 19 inches eee inches broad and 4 inches deep; in thick- 
ness it varies from $ to ł of an inch. 
One of the next articles that we came upon, also, I believe, unique, 
was a curious funnel made of a clam-shell ; it is shown in the accom- 
panying photograph (See Plate XXXV). It hada hole, about { of 
an inch in.diameter, cut through its deepest portion, and there were 
signs of some brown fluid having been poured through it. Small 
pieces of black pottery and a small conch or two pierced for handles 
and sharpened, were also discovered ; but the most curious of these old 
remains was the fishing-net which lay close to the trencher and to the 
other articles. It was well and evenly made, of about a 2-inch mesh, 
netted with a two-strand cord, the strands being spun from some 
vegetable fiber, perhaps cocanut or banana bark. Of this net, (See 
Plate XXXVI) a specimen of which has been deposited at the 
Museum of Archeology of the University of Pennsylvania, only a 
small portion was obtained, and that, unfortunately, in a very rotten 
condition, but a small piece of rope, an inch in diameter, of a coarser 
fibre, the division between its prairie being interwound with a fine 
cord, and a number of interest f the net were 
also discovered. (See Plate XXXVI). These consisted of five wooden 
sticks about 20 in. x 1 in. of irregular section, apparently made of the 
central palm-leaf stem, heavy and strong ; their use is dificult to deter- 
mine. There is no apparent mark of cords having been used in con- 
nection with them. There were also about thirty pins, made of an 
