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PREHISTORIC FISHING. 



The relics found in the reindeer-hunters' retreat called the " Kesslerloch," 

 near Thayngen, in the Canton of Ziirich, Switzerland,* have been described by 

 the discoverer of the cave, Mr. Konrad Merk, in the " Mittheilungen" 

 (communications) of the Antiquarian Society of Ziirich. The material out of 

 which the cave-dwellers manufactured their implements, he states, was almost 

 exclusively furnished by the antlers of the reindeer. There were found at this 

 station only eight harpoon-like objects, differing in the execution as well as in 



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11 



Flo. 25. 



Fig. 26. 



Fig. 27. 



Fig. 24. 



All 1. 

 Figs. 24-28. — Harpoon-heads of reindeer-horn f?). Kesslerloch. 



Fia. 28. 



* See p. 9. 



