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memoirs of the relics in stone, bone, and bronze which the 

 dredgings of the Lake of Zurich have revealed. He has thus 

 ideally reproduced an ancient Swiss village, as the New-Gui- 

 nea representative seems to warrant him in imagining it 

 must have been. 



M. Lohle, who has also written on these lacustrine dwell- 

 ings, believes that as many as 300 wooden huts were some 

 times aggregated in one settlement, and that they may have 

 held 1000 inhabitants. M. Troyon, in his work on Swiss lake- 

 habitations, specifies the different places of their occurrence. 

 He enumerates the Lakes of Constance, Zurich, Geneva, and 

 Neuf chatel, and most of the smaller ones. Some belong ex- 

 clusively to the stone age ; others are of the bronze period. 

 More than twenty of these last have been referred to the 

 Lake of Geneva alone, twelve on the Lake of Neufchatel, 

 and ten on the small Lake of Bienne. 



The small Lake Mooseedorf, near Berne, was the one first 

 studied. The dwellings here belonged exclusively to the stone 

 period; implements of stone, horn, and bone, but none of metal, 

 having been discovered. The neighbourhood is not one that 

 yields flints naturally, yet flint fragments are scattered about 

 in profusion ; the material must have been imported, probably 

 from the south of France. Hatchets and wedges of jade have 

 also been found ; the jade said by mineralogists to be of a sort 

 not found naturally in Switzerland or any adjoining part of 

 Europe. Amber also was found; brought, most probably, 

 from the shores of the Baltic. 



At Wangen, near Stein, the relics discovered were still 

 more curious. Here hatchets of serpentine and greenstone 

 were found, and arrow-heads of quartz ; specimens of cloth 

 too, not woven but plaited, the material seemingly flax. Pro- 

 fessor Heer has discovered masses of half-burnt wheat the 

 wheat of two varieties; barley also; round flat cakes of bread; 

 carbonised apples, pears ; stones of the wild plum ; seeds of 

 the raspberry and blackberry, beech-nuts and hazel-nuts, 



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