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The materials of which it is composed are of a dull transparency, of a grade between the most translucent and opaque china. The form of the hand which holds it on one side is visible on the other. One half of the vessel is stained with red, irregular blotches, like specs made by spattering from a brush, very ornamental to the cup. The vessel itself is of a milk white cast: the specks are of a bright red colour. No decorations are on the other side of the vessel. It was found in a mound within one or two miles of St Louis, in the state of Missouri, which mound was covered with timber of an enormous size. There were in the mound two of these cups, together with about a peck of glazed beads, small, and of a white and brown colour. The mound was opened three or four years ago, about the year 1819 or 1820. The clay or sand was of a very fine texture, and the vessel highly polished.

An urn was found in a mound a few miles from Chillicothe. It very much resembled one found in a similar work in Scotland, which is thirteen inches high, and of a black appearance, as if it had been filled with oil. It was found in a tumulus, which contained arrow heads, ashes and calcined bones. The urns generally contain human bones which have been burnt in a hot fire. And from the appearance of the vessels, oil of some kind has been put into them with