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one of a class of ancient Irish boats mentioned by Sir W. Wilde (page 62 of 

 this publication) . This dug-out, which was with great difficulty taken in several 

 pieces out of the water, is thus described by Professor Grangier : 



FIG. 161. Boat. Cudrefin. 



" The Cudrefin canoe is about thirty -six and a half English feet long, and 

 about two feet nine inches in its broadest part. The height in the middle is 

 about two feet, the depth nearly one foot six inches, the thickness of the sides is 

 three inches, and that of the bottom rather more than four inches. At the 

 bottom of the boat there are four cross-ribs, made out of the same piece of oak 

 timber as the boat, and at a distance apart of eight or nine feet ; that at the 

 prow is an actual seat, and is about one foot wide and eight inches high ; the 

 three others are about three inches high and seven inches wide. They were 



probably intended to strengthen the bottom. As it would have been 



rather difficult, with my small experience in these matters, to give an idea of the 

 different pieces which together make up this vessel, I have thought it best to 

 draw it, not just as it is at the present moment, but as it was before it was taken 

 out of the water. The most remarkable things about it, according to my ideas, 

 are the part like a handle and the prow, which are in very good preservation."* 



M. Edmond de Fellenberg succeeded in recovering two boats near the 

 station of Vingelz, in the Lake of Bienne. One of them is referred by him to 

 the bronze age. The first, an oaken dug-out strengthened by cross-ribs at the 

 bottom, measured a little over forty-three feet in length. A crack extended from 

 one end to the other, and it had been kept together in olden times by iron 



* Keller: Lake Dwellings; Vol. I, p. 282. 



