EARTHENWARE POT OF THE STONE AGE. 
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as a cooking vessel, may have been used for the storage of small 
valuables of a family of the Stone Age people, and that the per- 
forations were for strings with which to suspend the vessel in 
some out-of-the-way corner of the hut. Or it may be that these 
people were migratory in their habits, like the present aborigines, 
and buried their valuables when moving to a new camping ground. 
(See paragraph in Mr. London’s letter relative to the depths at 
which pottery fragments were found). 
We append here copies of the letters received from Mr. 
London and Mr. Boyle relative to this vessel : 
Lakeville Corner, Sunbury Co. 
November 14th, 1904. 
Dear Mr. Kain : 
I accept with much gratitude the hearty vote of thanks tendered me 
by the Natural History Society, and only wish that I could render better 
assistance in the good work that is being done. I am always encouraged 
by the attention which you and Dr. Matthew give to specimens that I 
send you. 
On Monday, August 8th, 1904, I was prospecting for Indian relics at 
Ring’s Island, S. W. side of Maquapit Lake, and soon discovered on the 
point of the ridge, about two or three rods from the bank of the thorough- 
fare, a large lump of mud of a little lighter color than the mud-flat, and 
as I had found two other objects like it this year, and two last year, in 
the same place, I knew that I would find pottery fragments under it, and I 
secured what was left of the largest and thickest pot I have ever seen, and 
have just sent you the same. All the other fragments I got there this 
year and last I did not keep separate. There were not enough pieces 
together of any other dish to indicate how large it was. All that are not 
yet uncovered are probably more or less broken. When the water is sum- 
mer-low the ridge is about six feet out. The pot I sent you had been 
about one foot under ground. Of the other four, one was at the surface 
of the ridge. The depth of the rest under ground had been six, twenty- 
four, and thirty inches, respectively. 
I am sending you a sketch of Maquapit Lake, showing the above- 
mentioned place. 
Yours sincerely, 
Duncan London. 
B* S. — Those pots were from ten to twenty-five feet apart. You 
make what use you please of this note. 
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