FISHING-NETS. 57 



for the flsh-hunt.==- I am uncertain whether Figs. 65 and 66 are drawn in 

 full or fractional size, no statements indicating the scale being made in the 

 translation of Dr. Keller's work.f In Fig. 67 I present the delineation of a 

 similar flint arrow-head from the stone and bronze-yielding station near Bodio, 

 on the Lake of Varese, in Lombardy. In this instance, too, the size is not 

 mentioned ; but it is probably the natural one.J It hardly need be re- 

 marked that the stone arrow-heads here figured may just as well have 

 belonged to hunting, or, perhaps, even to war-arrows. I have simply dealt in 

 probabilities in guardedly assigning to them another use. 



Fig. 68. — Fragment of fishing-uet. Robenhausen (?). 



There can be no doubt that the lake-dwellers fished with nets. Owing to 

 peculiar circumstances, known to the reader, many fabrics of flax have been 

 preserved in the relic-beds, and among these are fragments of nets made exactly 

 like those used in our time. But even in the absence of these fragments the 

 occurrence of real net-sinkers would furnish sufficient ground for the assertion. 

 "Of netted manufacture," it is said, " the most simple form are the nets, which 

 vary considerably, both in the strength of the cord and in the size of the meshes, 

 according to the purposes for which they were designed, and yet they seem all to 

 have been made in the same manner."§ It would be strange, indeed, if primitive 

 people had employed different methods in making nets, whatever their destination 

 might have been. There are but two delineations of net-fragments given in Dr. 

 Keller's work, one of which is here reproduced as Fig. 68. || The meshes of this 



* Keller : Lake Dwellings ; Vol. II, Plate XIII, Fig. 13. 



•j- Unfortunately this is too often the case in that publication, and greatly diminishes its scientific value. 



X Keller: Lake-Dwellings; Vol. II, Plate CLXII, Fig. 1. 



§Ibid.; Vol. I, p. 510. 



II Ibid.; Vol. II, Plate CXXXVI, Fig. 2. 



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