JADE TOOLS IN SWITZERLAND. 687 



Damours. Now, of nephrite and jadeite, it is known that, with 

 the single exception constituted by the discovery of an unvvorked 

 fragment at Schwemmsal in Saxony, no unworked specimen of 

 either has been found nearer to Switzerland than, for nephrite, 

 Turkestan and the environs of Lake Baikal; and, for jadeite, 

 China. 



Mr. Max Miiller says it was a harder business for the west- 

 ward emigrants of the Stone Age to carry the ponderous tools, 

 which their Aryan language represents, than the lighter ones which 

 the Messrs. Fellenberg, pere et fils, have taught us so much about. 

 It is not for me to defend the Professor ; but, once more to illustrate 

 the past from the present, I may say that many parents, if there 

 are any who feel sceptical as to this ponderation, can have the 

 opportunity of convincing themselves of its correctness by taking 

 stock of the amount of Greek and Latin their sons have been suc- 

 cessful in transporting home with them through the perils and 

 trials of a railway journey this Christmas. 



But there are some things harder to transport with you than 

 pocket-knives, whether of jadeite or nephrite, and harder to carry 

 with you even than Aryan or any other languages. These are 

 domestic animals. The sheep and the goat are both found in the 

 Stone- Age pile-dwellings along with these weapons. Does Mr. 

 H, M. Westropp think a goat would be easier of transport than a 

 celt (of jade) ? Let him try. Yet it would be * a wild hypothesis ' 

 indeed which should aver that these animals came otherwise into 

 the Switzerland pile-dwellings than by slow transportation from 

 the East. 



I am anxious to hear how your correspondent will meet this 

 difficulty. But before I write again I should be glad to be assured 

 that any antagonist who may reply to my suggestions had con- 

 sulted the following references : — 



Keller — ^ Lake Dwellings ; ' English translation by J. E. Lee, 

 F.G.S.j L p. 195, !znd ed. 1878; and Fischer and Fellenberg, citt 

 in loc. Edmund von Fellenberg — 'Bericht an die tit. Direction 

 der Entsumpfungen iiber die Ausbeutung der Pfahlbauten,' Bern, 

 1875. L. R. von Fellenberg — 'Neues Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie,' 

 p. 619, i86(5. 



