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4 have been found. The inhabitants seem to have understood the manufacture of pottery to some extent, as numerous fragments show. The clay for tins they obtained in the bank near at hand. This was probably mixed with the lime of powdered clam-shells, and then molded



into shape, and probably the larger vessels were supported by wicker-work made from small twigs, as there are numerous specimens which seem to show such an arrangement, although no perfect vessels have been found here, nor is it certain whether the vessels were baked in the fire or not.

The writer thinks the inhabitants lived mostly upon the products