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Copper, and but a very few of mixt metal A gre^t 
number had the Charafters efFac'd, but the legible v/ere 
die faireft I ever fav/ 5 a great many choice pieces were 
pick'd out before I had the opportunity to %Mew them 
in the condition they were found. However, I had 
the luck to light on as good as moft were. Tis ob- 
fervable many of the faid Pieces were giit v/ith Silver, 
tvvliich on feveral that I have feen feem'd very little im*^ 
paired, tho they have lain under ground for feme Age?, 
and appeared as much Canker'd as the reft. I have 
among feveral others two very odd Pieces 5 one of 
them gilt 5 on one fide a Wcmans face, with this In- 
fcription S A L O N I N A AUG, the other a 
Womans face, part of the Infcription HE-LENA, 
the remaining Charadfers I cannot decypher. On the 
Reverie P A X P V B L I C A. This latter is of a 
mixt metal refembling Brafs, of the largenefs of a Silver- 
penny ungilt. Thus far of Coyn. Now 1 conceive it 
not amifs to let you underftand, that about the fame 
time, and witbtn kfew yatds of the fame place, were 
fomd feme Pofes, made :<rf a /very firm and durable 
Clay, of pretty ftrange Figures, and different Earth, 
two of which I have by me, one of them feme what 
refembling an Oyfter-pot, is about 1^ of an inch thick, 
9 inches in Circumference, and 5 i in depth, and for 
ftrength and compadnefs, fcarce to be parallelled by 
any now^ made ^ the other is one half of the Pot, in 
which the treafure was found. There is likewife ano- 
ther Pot in the hands of another perCon, of "about 11 
Inches circumference, and 3 4 deep, wherein was found 
a whitifh Powder, fuppofed by the owner to be the 
afhes of humane Bones, and therefore by him taken to 
be an Urn. But the Experiment made on the fuppofed 
Bone afhes, by putting afmall portion into the bowl of 
,a cleaa Tobacco-pipe made glowing,- it foon appear'd 
to the contrary y : for the faid matter immediatelv kin* 
■ ' died 
