However, considering the heat of the climate, I did not doubt but if I could find out any clay, I might make some pots that might, being dried in the sun, be hard enough and strong enough to bear handling, and to hold anything that was dry, and required to be kept so; and as this was necessary in the preparing corn, meal, &c., which was the thing I was doing, I resolved to make some as large as I could, and fit only to stand like jars, to hold what should be put into them.
Pure, pensando all’estremo caldo del clima, non giudicai difficile il poter trovare una tal sorta di creta onde si potesse fare alla meglio una pentola che, seccata al sole, fosse dura e forte abbastanza per essere maneggiata e contenere qualunque cosa non liquida ed atta ad esservi conservata entro. E poichè tal genere di vaso mi era necessario nelle mie faccende del grano, della farina, ec., allora argomento principale de’ miei pensieri, mi determinai a far questi vasi ampi quanta mai si poteva ed opportuni, come gli orci, a contenere tutte le cose che vi si volessero racchiudere.