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One of these semicircles of hare-barriers was quite 45 m 

 long, another 80 m long and the longest 1 saw had a length 

 of ca. 160 m. The single stones or stone-heaps are placed at 

 a distance of 2^2 — 5 m from one another and their height is 

 in general 30 — 45 cm. Sometimes, but by no means always, 



Fig. 7. 



View from the settlement Umanark. On the left a depot-pillar. On the right of this a 



winter-house, seen from the side; on the right of the picture a second house, seen straight 



in front with the opening to the passage below and the opening of the window above. 



The beach is immediately to the left of the depot-pillar. 



rows of small stones, the meaning of which is not quite clear, 

 are placed between these large stones. Horizontal strings of 

 seal's hide can be stretched between the stone-heaps with rows 

 of running nooses hanging down from them. When a hare 

 comes down from the hills and seeks its way to the grass- 

 covered hollow or is returning from this to the hills, it runs 

 up against these strings and nooses and begins to play with 

 them or to investigate them somewhat closely. The result in 



