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vessel, its middle standing out as a loop-like handle. 
Nos. 18-21, are much caricatured human heads and face. 
Another example, not figured here, is more proba- 
bly the stopper of a water-bottle (goglet) than the handle 
of a vessel. Yet another is a fragment of a vessel showing 
the paws of one of the figure-handles, though the figure 
itself is wanting. 
Leaving out of consideration the pottery of the civilized 
races of America, as for instance of the Peruvians and 
Mexicans, in which similar and even much higher orna- 
mentation is attempted, clay figures, comparable with 
those from Enmore are, I believe, known only from one 
area in America, and presumably, as the work of one 
people, the Caribs of the West Indian islands. Nor are 
specimens of this Carib pottery very abundant. But in the 
National Museum of the United States, at Washington, is 
a magnificent collection of old Carib relics, gathered toge- 
ther from Porto Rico and the neighbouring islands by 
Mr. GEORGE Latimer, for many years a merchant, and 
consul for the United States, first in St. Thomas and 
afterward in Porto Rico. A profusely illustrated report, 
by Professor Otis T. MASON, on this collection, is given 
in the report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1876 
(pp. 371-393), in which, among other objects, are des- 
cribed and figured various fragments of pottery almost 
exactly similar to those from Enmore. Moreover, while 
referring to this report on the Latimer collection, it may 
be worth while to note that, as is abundantly evident 
from the study, not only of this but also of any collection 
of Carib relics, including both pottery and stone imple- 
ments, the ornate figures which adorn, and form the cha- 
racteristic of, the more elaborate Carib stone implements, 
