one could take them to be the products of such remote 

 ages, if they had not really been found among the remains 

 of these dwellings. 



We find in the cabinet against the wall a fine collection , 

 being part of that belonging to the late Mr. C. C. Amrein- 

 Buhler, professor in St. Gallen (f 1898), and consisting 

 of about 140 instruments of stone, 6 of wood, 66 of bone, 

 moreover about 190 objects or rather characteristic frag- 

 ments of earthenware, divers fruits, leather, and a number 

 of teeth, bones, antlers and horns of animals. Most of 

 these objects were found by Professor Amrein himself 

 during the autumn and winter 1872 1873 at the 

 northern extremity of the lake of Baldegg. The spot where 

 these lacustrian remains were found, from 2 3 acres in 

 size, is situated on a tongue of land, stretching a good 

 way into the lake 5 it was formerly entirely, and is even 

 now-a-days partly, under water. It is bordered in the 

 East and North by the hillocks formed by the moraines 

 of that glacier to which we owe the origin of the mill-pots 

 of this garden. 



We specially mention: 



1. Heads of lances of silex. 2. Agate. 3. Heads 

 of lances of rock crystal. 4. Chisels and saws of silex. 

 5. Silex. 6. Hatchets of flint-stone and green-stone. 

 7. Pickaxe and hammer made of flint-stone and green- 

 stone. 8. Pickaxe and chisel of flint stone (very rare). 

 9. Chisels of flint stone, agate, green-stone, and green 

 porphyry, etc. 10. Gneiss. 11. Knife of saussurite or 

 nephrite. 12. Sand- stone to polish bone-needles. 13. Un- 

 known. 14. Sling-Stone, 15. Sand-stone to polish bone- 

 instruments. 16. Stone to iron leather with. 17 18. Stones 

 of different size to stretch out the weaving. 19. Driving- 

 mallets. 20. Whet-Stones of very fine sand stone used 

 for the preparation of stone hatchets, stone- chisels and 

 instruments of bone. 21. Grrinding-stone with under- 

 mill-stone. (This is the origin of our corn-mill.) 22. About 

 60 pots herds of divers earthenware. 23. Fragments 

 of earthenware, utensils with pretty decorations (finger- 

 impressions), divers handles with eyes. 24 25. Earthen 



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