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with the bones. Some of these urns appear to have been made of a composition resembling that of which mortars for physicians are now manufactured by Europeans. There is one now in existence, & in possession of a gentleman residing on the Little Scioto, in Scioto County, Ohio. It contains about three quarts, and is brought to a perfect point at the bottom. About halfway from the top to the bottom is a groove around its inside, and two ears. Through a hole a chain may be passed, on which to suspend it. It was found 12 feet below the surface, & is not injured by exposure to considerable heat. (Archaeologia Americana 228) The pottery found near the surface is nude?, and such as the present Indians make; but at the bottom of mounds, or near the head of some distinguished personage, vessels are found in some instances equal to any now manufactured in any part of the world. Two covers of vessels were found in a mound in Ross county, in Ohio, very ingeniously wrought by the artist, and highly polished. They resemble almost exactly, and were quite equal to, vessels of the same materials manufactured in Italy at the present time.

A number of pieces of glass, of singular workmanship, were lately found at Hamburgh, in the state of New York. They were taken from an ancient barrow in the town of Hamburgh, where they were found deposited in an earthen pot. Contiguous to this spot, were also found a skull, and some other bones of the human frame, of unusual size. This mound, or supposed repository of the dead,