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in private collections and the Museum, most of those objects will, I 

 believe, on examination be admitted to show some traces of blackening 

 and burning on the edge of the cup. 



Although the marks of use are not so strong as on the two figs, 

 referred to above, they are quite as distinct as those on Sir Thomas 

 Grattan Esmonde's lamp from the Hawaiian Islands, which vessel, he 

 told me, he himself saw in use there. 



