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mean when I have given you a short account of the results of his inves- 
tigations. 
He found among the ruins of the ancient Chateau of Foenis, about a 
league to the north of the village of Anet, near Berne, ten large tumuli, 
erected upon a wooded hill which overlooks Anet, and from which there 
is a view of the lakes of Morat, Neuchatel, Bienne, and of the chain of 
mountains from the Titls to Mont Blanc. Six of these mounds were 
ranged at some feet from each other, on the crest of the hill, in a line 
running from east to west. The remaining four formed a semicircle at 
the end of this line. The mounds varied in dimensions from 6 to 15 feet 
in height, and 40 to 60 paces in circumference. 
The first circumstance noticed by the Baron, which distinguishes 
these tombs from the Celtic and British sepulchral monuments of the 
same kind is, that the stones forming the chamber of the tomb appeared 
to have been cemented together with mortar. 
Another circumstance is, that some of these tombs contained two or 
three bodies, not laid together in the same chamber, as in our Celtic 
tombs, but in a lower, middle, and upper chamber, separated from each 
other by layers of stones or flags, the roof of the lowest chamber form- 
ing the bottom of the second, and so on. M. de Bonstetten remarks that 
he did not find in any case more than three such chambers, and that in 
the upper chamber were usually found, in addition to the remains of the 
third corpse, the ashes of burnt bones, on a bed of fine sand. The whole 
structure was surrounded and covered with small stones, giving the mo- 
-nument the form of a conical mound, resembling our cairns. 
It is probable, from this account, that two ditferent customs of sepul- 
ture may have coexisted at the time when these tumuli were constructed, 
—that of cremation, and that of burial, properly so called,—and that the 
burnt remains were in general placed at the top. Could it be that the 
Christians, in reverence for the hope of the Resurrection, were buried 
without cremation, and that the heathen serfs, or pagant, were burnt ? 
In confirmation of this opinion, it is to be observed that there were 
found in the same tomb articles which had evidently been subjected to 
the action of fire, and other articles which, from their very nature, could 
not have been in fire. ‘hus, in the first tomb, M. de Bonstetten found 
‘“bracelets de bronze, presque consumées par le feu,’’ and also a wooden 
ring, a large ring of amber, and rings of bronze connected together by 
linen or worsted threads, the remains of which were visible, forming a 
sort of light coat of mail, intended evidently for ornament rather than 
for defence. In other tombs he found the remains of chariots in wood, 
a buckler, with the remains of the leather of which it was composed, 
rings of wood and of amber, leather harness, and other things which 
evidently could never have been subjected to the action of fire. 
But it will be better to describe very briefly what was actually found 
in these tombs before we make any general remarks on their contents. 
Toms I.—After digging seven feet, large flags were found, covered 
with a black paste-like substance (probably decayed animal matter), 
mixed with fragments of bones, whether human or animal M. de Bon- 
stetten does not inform us. At the northern side were found fragments 
