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the boat was probably fully thirteen feet in width, and not 

 more than four feet in height from the keel to the gunwale, 

 and with both ends pointed. 



The vessel must have been low and flat, and probably un- 

 fit for stormy seas. It was prepared for using both oars and 

 sails, the remains of a mast being still very evident. The 

 work was executed with great care, and the vessel must have 

 been quite elegant in its time. All the boards are ornament- 

 ed with mouldings, both inside and out, and there were 

 carved ornaments to be seen on the upper side of the ribs. 



No small implements were seen except the rudder, which 

 was made of fir, the blade being four feet seven inches long 

 and ten inches wide. At the top of the stern is a square hole 

 for the tiller, standing perpendicularly on the flat side of the 

 blade. 



The body of the owner of the vessel was buried in the 

 space just behind the mast beam, the spot being indicated by 

 small flat wooden blocks sunk in the clay, and laid in a square 

 alongside of the boat and across it. With the human bones 

 were associated the bones of a horse, accompanied by a few 

 colored beads, some cloth compactly rolled together, the 

 fragments of a saddle, part of a snow-skate, etc. 



It was inferred from the bits of cloth that the body was 

 buried in its clothing, with the horse, saddle, and snow- 

 skates by its side. The article from which we borrow this 

 account states that this is the only vessel extant from the 

 Viking period, so far as known, and the most ancient that has 

 been preserved, with the exception of one in Denmark. The 

 vessel and the articles found in it have been taken to Chris- 

 tiania and added to the collection of Norwegian antiquities 

 belonging to the university. On an ancient Vessel found in 

 the Parish of Time, Christianity 1872. 



REMARKABLE CAVE SKELETON. 



According to a late Paris paper, the Natural History Mu- 

 seum of that city has added to its collection an extraordinary 

 skeleton, supposed to be the remains of a cave inhabitant. 

 This is five feet eight inches in height, the arms being of im- 

 mense length. The chest bones are enormous, and the skull, 

 which suddenly recedes from the root of the nose, leaves 

 scarcely any forehead visible, while the back of the head is 



