122 LAKE- DWELLINGS IN* VARIOUS PARTS OF EUROPE. 



At the Newcastle meeting of the British Association, in 1863, 

 Lord Lovaine described a Lake-dwelling observed by him in 

 the South of Scotland ; and in the " Natural History Review" 

 for July, 1863, I had already mentioned one in the North, 

 which, however, had not at that time been thoroughly ex- 

 amined. Sir Charles Bunbury has recorded (Quarterly Journal 

 of the Geological Society, vol. xiL 1856) some similar remains 

 found near Thetford, which have been described at greater 

 length by Mr. Alfred Newton, in an interesting paper "On 

 the Zoology of Ancient Europe," read before the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society, in March, 1862, In his fifth memoir 

 on the Pfahlbauten,* Dr. Keller has described a Lake-dwelling 

 at Peschiera, on the L. di Garda ; and we are indebted to 

 MM. B. Gastaldi,t P* Strobel, and L. Pigorini for a de- 

 scription of ruins of a similar nature, which have been 

 found in Northern Italy. M. Boucher de Perthes, in his 

 celebrated work, "Antiquites Celtiques et Antediluviennes," 

 mentions certain remains found in the peat near Abbeville, 

 which appear to have been the ruins of Lake- dwellings ; 

 an observation which is of special interest, as an additional 

 argument for referring the Swiss Lake-dwellings to the 

 period of the peat in the Somme valley, and therefore to an 

 epoch long subsequent to that of the drift-hatchets. This 

 inference is entirely in accordance with the conclusions de- 

 rived from the study of the stone implements themselves. 



But it is not necessary to go back to pre-historic times ; 

 nor need we appeal to doubtful history or ancient remains for 

 evidence of the curious habit of water-dwelling. Many savage 

 or semi- savage tribes live in the same manner, even at the 

 present day. I have been informed by a friend who lives at 



* Mittheilungen der Antiquarischen pani, Prima ricerca di Abitazioni la- 



Gesellschaft in Zurich. 1863. custri nei Laghi di Lombardia. Atti 



f Nuovi Cenni sugli oggetti di Alta della Soc. Italiana di Scienze Naturali, 



Antiehita trovati nelle Torbiere e nelle 1863. vol. v. p. 154. 

 Marniere dell' Italia. See also Stop- 



