When last I visited them but few landmarks remained." "Was there a pottery on your father's farm, Aunt Sarah ?" inquired Mary.
"No.

The nearest one was the McEntee pottery, but the grandson of the old man who purchased our old farm at my father's death had a limekiln for the purpose of burning lime, and several miles distant, at the home of my uncle, was found clay suitable for the manufacture of bricks.

Only a few years ago this plant was still in operation.

My father's farm was situated in the upper part of Bucks County, in what was then known as the Nockamixon Swamp, and at one time there were in that neighborhood no less than seven potteries within two miles of each other." "Why," exclaimed Mary, "were there so many potteries in that locality ?" "'Twas due, no doubt, to the large deposits of clay found there, well suited to the manufacture of earthenware.

The soil is a clayey loam, underlaid with potter's clay.