Note 2 — Chapter I · - ETHNICAL PERIODS.

Mr. Edwin B. Tylor observes that Goquet “first propounded, in the last century, the notion that the way in which pottery came to be made, was that people daubed such combustible vessels as these with clay to protect them from fire, till they found that clay alone would answer the purpose, and thus the art of pottery came into the world.”—Early History of Mankind, p. 273. Goquet relates of Capt. Gonneville who visited the southeast coast of South America in 1503, that he found “their household utensils of wood, even their boiling pots, but plastered with a kind of clay, a good finger thick, which prevented the fire from burning them.”—Ib. 273.