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LECTURE XII. 



historical novels, upon foundations borrowed from Moses' 

 family chronicle of the Jewish tribes. 



riQ:. 105. Section of a Pile-work in the Lake. 



1, Eocky bottom. 2. Lake. 3. Mud-bed. 

 bed. 5. Stone-hill of the Stone Period. 

 Period. 



4. Whitish-grey-, or old Mud- 

 6. Culture-bed of the Bronze 



Let US return to the facts. There are pile-woi'ks situated 

 on the shores of the lakes, at some distance from the water, 

 covered by sand, loam, or calcareous sinter, which have been long 

 known to fishermen, who attached their nets to them. In some 

 few spots the water stands thirty feet above the piles furthest in 

 the lake, but the height of the water is generally much lower. 

 In the lakes of western Switzerland it has been observed that 

 those pile-buildings, in which no metal is found, are nearer the 

 shore and less under water, whilst others, where metal, and 

 specially bronzes are found, are situated at a greater distance 

 as well as greater depth. 



Fig. 106. Section of a Pile-Building in a Peat-moss. 



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M^^^!^&;^^^^s^^6S^^iim>^»M 



1. Vegetable earth. 2. Light peat. 3. Thick peat, with old trees at the 

 bottom." 4. Culture-bed with the piles imbedded in the white bottom. 5. 

 6. Sand-bed. V. Coarse gravel, flints. 8. Present lake-level. 



The pile-works in the turf-moors are always found in spots, 

 where formerly a lake existed, which even now shows in the 

 middle of the moor traces of its former extension. So it is 

 in Moosseedorf, Wauwyl, Kobenhausen on the Pfdffikon lake. 



