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used these also ; and from a passage, which I have 
already quoted (see Timehri, vol. ii. p. 254-5), in a letter 
written to me by Mr. E. L. ATKINSON of Trinidad it 
seems highly probable that these implements were used 
on some of the Grenadines also. 
4. Up to February in the present year (1884), in the 
course of much digging and collecting of the stone 
and other implements of the old inhabitants of 
Guiana, I had met with surprisingly few pieces of pot- 
tery ; nor had I even heard rumours of any large deposits 
of such objects. In fact, the instances of the occurrence 
of pottery known to me up to that time were, briefly, 
these. In 1877, in digging a shell mound at Pirakka, 
on the Pomeroon River, I found a few fragments of a 
clay vessel which had apparently differed from 
the ordinary and very simple cooking vessel (buck- 
pot) of our modern Indians only in that it had 
been of better clay and had not been stained black. 
Again, at the end of last year, in digging some shell 
from the kitchen-midden at Cabacaboori, also on the 
Pomeroon River, for my tennis court, my men found a 
small and broken animal mask of clay, which might have 
been a boss, or other ornament, on some clay vessel* 
And about the same time, my friend Mr. HEARD, who 
lives at Cabacaboori, dug up from the same midden two 
fragments (which he kindly gave to me) of what appear- 
ed to be a tile of baked clay ; these, however, more pro- 
bably were parts of a slab-like piece of pottery (the same 
utensil was more frequently made of sandstone and is 
now almost always made of iron) on which the flat 
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