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Rev. H. B. George shows, be obtained ; and that speaking generally all 

 the pottery of the Swiss stone age is inferior in shape, paste, and size to 

 that of the bronze age. Still with my recollection of the best specimens 

 of British long-barrow pottery, such as those referred to (Article xviii.) 

 as found by myself and others, I needed when at Morges a very definite 

 assurance from that entirely indisputable authority Professor F. A. Forel, 

 to make me believe, as I do, that certain pottery of a much higher degree 

 of excellence had really belonged to the stone age. 



Thirdly, even in the very early lake-dwelling of Schaffis, barbed and 

 tanged arrow-heads have been found, as indeed also in Danish and Breton 

 stone-age interments ; whilst our long barrows have, as Dr. Thurnam 

 remarked, never furnished us with any arrow-heads perfected beyond the 

 leaf-shape. 



Fourthly, the practice of boring, however roughly and by whatever 

 process, the stone axe for the reception of the haft was not unknown even 

 to the lake-dwellers of Schaffis (see Herr E. v. Fellenberg's ' Bericht 

 uber die Pfahlbauten des Bielersees/ 1875, p. 78), whilst, as Mr. John 

 Evans ('Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain,' p. 49) has re- 

 marked, the stone axes of this period, at least in Britain, were rarely 

 perforated. 



The similarly all but, if not entirely, complete absence of nephrit- and 

 jadeit-implements from our British prehistoric series constitutes a fifth 

 point of contrast between them and those procured from the Swiss lakes ; 

 and to the ■ Ethnographisch-archaologische Bedeutung ' (to use the words 

 of Prof. H. Fischer in his model monograph 'Nephrit und Jadeit,' 

 1875, p. 1 ; see also pp. 48, 49, 54, 355, 367, 377) of this negative fact, 

 we must under all the circumstances of the case assign a very high 

 place. 



Wild animals, sixthly, are but sparingly represented in early British 

 graves, whilst in some at least of the earliest Swiss lake-dwellings they 

 have a numerical preponderance over the domesticated breeds. It is 

 right however to add that in the early British dwellings for the living 

 and in early British excavations such as the flint mines at Cissbury, this 

 numerical inferiority of the wild fauna is by no means so distinctly pro- 

 nounced (see 'Jour. Anthrop. Inst.,' vol. vi. 1876, Article xix.). 



Seventhly, as regards the craniography of our own species, the skulls 

 of the Swiss lake-dwellers of both stone- and bronze-periods alike belong 

 to that 'massive and grandiose' variety of the dolichocephalic type 

 which the Swiss ethnographers, His and Rutimeyer, have in their often- 

 referred to ' Crania Helvetica' called the ' Sion Typus.' In other words, 

 we have in Switzerland no such evidence for the immigration of a fresh 



