Continuity of History.--Early British Urns.--Scottish Relics.--Irish Urns.--Roman Conquest.--Caistor Ware.--Anglo-Roman Ware.--Saxon Period.--After the Norman Conquest.--Tiles.--Dutch Potteries in England.--English Delft.--Stone-ware.--Sandwich.--Staffordshire Potteries.--Early Products.--The Tofts.--Salt Glaze.--Broadwell and the Elers Family.--Use of Calcined Flint.--Wedgwood.--His Life.--Jasper Ware.--Queen’s Ware.--The Portland Vase.--Basaltes.--Wedgwood’s Removal to Etruria.--His Death.--Minton & Co.--Their Imitations of the Oriental.--Pate Changeante.--Pate-sur-Pate.--Cloisonné Enamel on Porcelain.--Other Reproductions.--Their Majolica.--Their Artists.--Minton, Hollins & Co.--Lambeth.--Doulton Ware.--Terra-cotta and Stone-ware.--George Tinworth.--Fulham.--Bristol.--Leeds.--Liverpool.--Lowestoft.--Yarmouth. --Nottingham.--Shropshire.--Yorkshire.--PORCELAIN: Plymouth Hard Porcelain.--Cookworthy.--Bow.--Chelsea.--Derby.--Worcester.--Minton. --Pate-sur-Pate.--Spode.--Copeland.--Bristol.--Tunstall.--Caughley. --Nantgarrow.--Swansea.--Colebrookdale.--Pinxton.--Shelton.--Belleek.--General Character of Manufacture in Great Britain.....352 BOOK IV.--AMERICA. CHAPTER I. SOUTH AMERICA. Antiquity of American People.--Scope of Inquiry.--PERU: Its Old Inhabitants.--Course of Ceramic Art.--Doubts regarding Origin of Peruvian Civilization.--Periods.--The Incas.--Pizarro.--Geological Evidence of Antiquity.--Unbaked Bricks.--Pachacamac.--Its Graves.--Opposite Types.--Effect of Religion.--Symbols.--Forms of Pottery.--Water-Vessels.--Human Forms.--Leading Features of Decoration.--Colors Employed.--Processes.--Customs Learned from Pottery.--BRAZIL: Ancient Specimens.--Modern Ware.--Bricks and Tiles.--Talhas.--Moringues and other Water-Vessels.--Colombia.....391 CHAPTER II. CENTRAL AMERICA. Connection with Peru.--Nicaragua.--Ometepec.--Modern Potters.--Guatemala.--Ancient Cities.--Who Built Them.--Copan.--Quirigua.--Palenque.--Mitla.....418 CHAPTER III. THE MOUND-BUILDERS. Who were they?--Their supposed Central American Origin.--The place they occupy in the present History.--Recent Discoveries.--Pottery of the Lower Mississippi.--Deduction from Comparison with Peruvian.....425 CHAPTER IV. INDIAN POTTERY. Successors of the Mound-builders.--Opinion of Professor Marsh.--Pueblos descended from the Mound-builders.--Natchez and Mandan Tribes.--Pueblos of Colorado, etc.--Pottery found at El Moro.--Zuni.--Further Discoveries.--Immense Quantities of Fragmentary Pottery.--Corrugated Pottery of Colorado.--Painted Pottery.--Moquis of Tegua.--Modern Pueblos.--Trade in Pottery.--Resemblances between Potteries of South, Central, and North America.--Indian Pottery from Illinois.--Louisiana, and how Pottery made.--New Jersey Indians.--Tennessee.--Maryland.--Other Indian Tribes.....429 CHAPTER V. UNITED STATES.