QUARTERLY BULLETIN 95 FIG. 7 "NAPPY" YELLOW POTTERY, LEAD GLAZE, GREEN SLIP. Lewis Morris house site, Morrisania. Stoneware is really pottery partially vitrified with an admixture of sand in the clay, subjected for a prolonged period to a high temperature. While it originated in Germany before the sixteenth century, its manufacture was begun at Burslem in England as early as the year 1700, and its use for domestic purposes became almost universal there and in the colonies. It is not surprising, therefore, that stoneware fragments are a common accompaniment of camp refuse of the period of the Revolution, and every campsite and the vicinity of old dwellings has always yielded more or less of parts of vessels made of this material. The surface was commonly glazed by the use of salt in the oven, which produced a pleasingly varied and somewhat pitted surface. An interesting specimen from the Inwood hill camp is a seltzer-water bottle of yellowish gray stoneware, the body of which