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character. * As the same reef must extend very much 
further along the coast than I was able to follow it, 
and as these raised islands probably occur at irregular 
intervals along the whole course of the reef, it would be 
interesting to know whether the whole, or if not that, 
how much of this reef, bears a deposit of pottery, t 
At present I propose to confine my remarks exclu- 
sively to the pottery found in the two islands, directly be- 
hind Enmore itself. It is there hardly possible to turn 
over the soil without meeting with fragments of pottery ; 
and, indeed, the soil immediately around these islands, 
having but recently been dug and planted with canes, 
many fragments are strewn here and there on the surface 
of the ground. The pottery still undisturbed is, like that 
lying on the surface, in a very fragmentary condition and 
is much mixed with human bones, together with a few 
bones of fishes, and with certain curious lumps of hard 
substance, possibly clay, possibly wood. % On digging, it 
at once becomes apparent that the pottery may roughly 
* The only differences I have been able to detect as yet are that in the 
island behind the Enmore buildings and in that immediately to the 
right of it, stone implements occur very sparingly, while they seem to 
be much more abundant on the island behind Bachelor's Adventure ; 
and, on the other hand, artistic pottery seems to be much more abun- 
dant on the Enmore island than elsewhere. But both these differences 
may prove to be more apparent than real. 
f Since this was written, the Honble. B. Howell Jones has found, 
and has exhibited before the Society, certain pieces of pottery, of 
apparently similar nature to those which I am now describing, 
at Pin. La Bon Pere on the Mahaica Creek. It seems highly pro- 
bable that similar deposits exist along the whole of that coast. 
%\ must emphatically point out that these deposits of pottery, &c, 
are not, in any sense, kitchen middens (shell-mounds). 
