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collection are catalogued as from the prehistoric cemetery and the Millar 
farm. One thousand three hundred and thirty-one fragments were found 
on the harbour, exclusive of those found by others. 
Of the six hundred and three fragments found in heap D, two hundred 
and seventy-one evidently belong to one pot, one hundred and twenty-five 
to another, and two to a third. An examination of all the pottery collected 
allows of an estimate being made that about sixty pots are represented 
by the fragments from heap A, sixteen from heap D, eight from the pre- 
historic cemetery, two from heap K, seven from heap L, eleven from heap 
M, and six from heap N, or a total of one hundred and ten from the harbour. 
The pottery from all these places, including the prehistoric cemetery, 
is of the same general character. It is a coarse, heavy ware. Most of 
it is brownish grey, but many pieces are buff, salmon, or red, depending 
on the character of the clay used for coating one or both surfaces. The 
coating is usually thicker on the outside. It is not a true slip, but a layer 
on the incompletely fired and, consequently, blackish part of the interior 
of the body. One large pot, of which one hundred and twenty-five frag- 
ments were found, is of unusually bright brick red colour, but yellowish 
brown on the inside. One of these fragments is illustrated on Plate X, 
figure 1, another fragment of the same colour is seen on Plate XI, figure 3. 
The fragment illustrated on Plate VIII, figure 1, has a yellowish coating of 
this character on both the outer and inner side. 
The quality of the ware varies from that with a very rough surface to 
some of slightly rough finish, but, as might be expected, none is glazed 
or even highly polished. The fragment illustrated on Plate VIII, figure 8, 
is as strong, smooth, and highly polished as any found on the harbour, 
and it is as highly polished as any Iroquoian ware. 
The thickness of the ware may be judged from the two larger lots, 
making over a thousand fragments from the two larger excavations, 
one in heap A, and the other in heap D. This varies from extremely 
thin ware, slightly less than three-sixteenths of an inch thick, to ware 
that is five-eighths of an inch thick, but most of it, as may be seen in the 
figures, is from five-sixteenths to six-sixteenths of an inch thick. One 
fragment of a rim (Plate X, figure 12), however, has a thickness of three- 
fourths of an inch. 
The size, and to a certain extent the shape, of the vessels may be 
judged from the fragments. The thickness of the ware suggests, and the 
curve of the fragments, especially of the rims, shows that some of the pots 
were as large as 20 inches in diameter, whereas others were only 3. Most 
of them probably were about 9 to 12 inches in diameter and depth. 
The bottoms were, apparently, usually rounded, but in some cases 
conical and obtusely pointed. Three pieces found in heap A, two of which 
are shown on Plate VIII, figures 1 and 2, and two found in heap D, might 
be considered as possibly from pots with obtusely pointed legs, but are 
probably from pots that were themselves obtusely pointed, in fact, almost 
brought to a nipple, like the end of a lemon, at the bottom. A fourth 
piece from heap A, illustrated in figure 3, seems more likely to be a fragment 
of a handle than the basal tip of a pot. No doubt many of the broken 
pieces were of similar shape. The thickness of the pottery at this point, 
and the fact that these pieces are parts of the ware rather than nipples 
