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what has been done in Switzerland, and compares the ancient 

 habitations of his native land, with the Lake-dwellings of other 

 countries and times. The discoveries in Lake Moosseedorf 

 have been described by MM. Jahn and Uhlmann (Die Pfahl- 

 baualterthiimer von Moosseedorf. Bern, 1857) ; the Lake- 

 habitation at the Pont de Thiele has also been described in 

 a separate memoir by M. V. Gillieron (Actes de la Societe 

 jurassienne d'Emulation. 1860) ; and we owe to Dr. Eiiti- 

 meyer two works on the animal remains from the Pfahl- 

 bauten, the first, " Untersuchung der Thierreste aus den 

 Pfahlbauten der Schweiz," published by the Antiquarian 

 Society of Zurich, in 1860 ; and still more recently, a larger 

 work " Die Fauna der Pfahlbauten in der Schweiz/' Col- 

 lections of objects from these localities have also been made 

 by many Swiss archaeologists. The Flora has been studied 

 by M. Heer, whose results are contained in the memoirs 

 published by Dr. Keller. 



Nor must we omit to mention M. Morlot's excellent paper in 

 the "Bulletin de la Socie*te Yaudoise (March, I860)," and his 

 no less admirable "Legon d'Ouverture d'un cours sur la haute 

 Antiquite fait a T Academic de Lausanne (Dec. I860)." From 

 the conclusion of this lecture, indeed, I must express my dis- 

 sent : not that I would undervalue what M. Morlot calls the 

 "practical utility of geology," nor that I am less sanguine as 

 to the future advantages of archaeology. Science, how- 

 ever, is like virtue, its own reward, and the improvement 

 of the mind must be regarded as the highest object of 

 study. But M. Morlot is, to use his own metaphor, laboring 

 earnestly in the vineyard, and is improving the soil, though, 

 as in the old fable, it may be in the false hope of finding a 

 concealed treasure. The Swiss archaeologists have indeed 

 made the most of a golden opportunity. Not only in the Lake 

 of Zurich, but also in Lakes Constance, Geneva, Neufchatel, 

 Bienne, Morat, Sempach, in fact in most of the large Swiss 



