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pig, horse, goat, sheep, and at least two varieties of oxen. 

 The bones very seldom occur in a natural condition ; but 

 those of domestic and wild animals are mixed together, and 

 the state in which they are found, the marks of knives upon 

 them, and their having been almost always broken open 

 for the sake of their marrow, are all evidences of human 

 interference. 



Two species, the one wild, the other domestic, are especially 

 numerous the stag and the ox. Indeed, the remains of these 

 two equal those of all the others together. It is, however, an 

 interesting fact, that in the older settlements, as at Moossee- 

 dorf, Wauwyl, and Eobenhausen, the stag exceeds the ox in 

 the number of specimens indicated, while the reverse is the 

 case in the more modern settlements of the western lakes, as, 

 for instance, those at Wangen and Meilen. 



Next to these in order of abundance is the hog. Less 

 numerous again, and generally represented by single speci- 

 mens where the preceding occur in numbers, are the roe, the 

 goat, and the sheep, which latter is most abundant in the 

 later settlements. With these rank the fox and the marten. 

 Foxes are occasionally eaten by the Esquimaux.* Captain 

 Lyon seems to have taken rather a fancy to them,-f- and 

 Franklin assures us that fat fox is better than lean venison^ 

 They also appear, whether from choice or necessity, to have 

 been eaten during the Stone period. This conclusion is de- 

 rived from the fact that the bones often present the marks 

 of knives, and have been opened for the sake of the marrow. 

 While, however, the fox is very frequent in the Pile-works of 

 the Stone epoch, it has not yet been found in any settlement 

 belonging to the Bronze period. Oddly enough, the dog is 

 rarer than the fox, at least as far as the observations yet go, 

 in the Lake-dwellings of the Stone period, though more com- 



l * Crantz, History of Greenland, t Lyon's Journal, p. 77. 



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