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PALAFITTES, OR LACUSTRIAN CONSTRUCTIONS 



were in a condition to require a provision of hay, and were consequently rearers 

 df cattle. Tho axe of tlie epoch of iron ia larger and stronger than the celt or 



Figure 78. Figure 83. Figure 84. Figure 82. 



hatchet of the age of bronze ; it has no longer four pinions like the true celt, 

 but the handle is adapted to a sort of socket formed by the junction, more or 



Figure 80. 



less complete, of two wings, (Fig. 81 ;) its edge is at the same time much wider. 

 A specimen of somewhat different form, with a socket complete and circular, Las 



