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PALAFITTES, OR LACUSTRIAN CONSTRUCTIONS 



but these are mucli rarer; the museum of Neuchatel possesses one from Concise 

 (Fig, 7) of very peculiar form; others were fitted to the stick and secured by- 



Figure 5. 



Figure 4. 



Fierure 2. 



Figure 3. 



Figure 6. 



Figure 3a. 

 means of pitch. In the specimen annexed (Fig. 7a) may be distinguished the 



Fiarure 7a. 



impression of the Stick and the thread which fastened it; others still are serrated, 

 or furnished with a vsmall lateral hook, similar to a diminutive harpoon. 



The bow for these arrows was of yew ; they have been found in good preser- 

 vation at the station of Kobenhausen and at Lake Constance. Our own lake has 

 as yet yielded only fragments. 



