. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . nnessee; in Alexander and Union coun-ties, llhnois; atKimmswick, near St Louis, Missouri; at Stc Genevieve,Missouri; at one or more points in Ohio; and probably, as is indicatedby Schoolcraft, on White river above Batesville, Arkansas. School-craft says that— It is common, in digging at these salt mines, to find fragments of antique pottery,and even entire pots of a coarse earthenware, at great depths below the of these pots which was, until a very recent period, preserved by a gen
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . nnessee; in Alexander and Union coun-ties, llhnois; atKimmswick, near St Louis, Missouri; at Stc Genevieve,Missouri; at one or more points in Ohio; and probably, as is indicatedby Schoolcraft, on White river above Batesville, Arkansas. School-craft says that— It is common, in digging at these salt mines, to find fragments of antique pottery,and even entire pots of a coarse earthenware, at great depths below the of these pots which was, until a very recent period, preserved by a gentlemanat Shawneetown; was dismterred at the depth of 80 feet, and was of a capacity tocontam 8 or 10 gallons. Others have been found at even greater depths, and ofgreater dimensions. We will not venture to state the surprising capacities of several tSmitii. Thomas Buckingham, Narratives of tiie career of Hernando de Soto, as told by a knightof Elvas, and in a relation by L. Hernandez de Biedma, New York, 1866, p work, p. 153. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT PL. Ill. a, USUAL FORM OF LARGE SALT VESSELS OR VATS
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