became apparent; and very many specimens broken by the 
blows of the shaping tools, as illustrated in plate 
LXXVII; so that every step of the work and every 
phase of the shaping operations are fully represented. 
The rough-dressed shapes vary a good deal with the 
different quarries, though on the whole there is decided 
uniformity in the work as carried on throughout the 
soapstone belt* Final forms, as shown by village-site 
remains, are limited to shallow trays or dishes, trough- 
like forms, and deep basins. Nowhere in eastern United 
States were pots made of the deep globular form so com¬ 
mon in California. 
A prevailing shape in the Potomac-Chesapeake region 
is an oblong basin with ear-like projections or handles at 
the ends, ^he largest specimens are about 285 inches in 
length. The width is often hardly more than half the 
