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OBJECTS OF BRONZE. 



fied in the following table, which I owe to the kindness of 

 Dr. Keller, and which gives an idea of the relative propor- 

 tions in which they occur : 



These objects were all cast, and the skill displayed in 

 their manufacture, as well as the beauty of their forms and 

 ornamentation, shows a considerable development of art. 

 The discovery of a bar of tin at Estavayer, and of a mould for 

 casting celts at Morges, has proved that some at least of these 

 objects were made in Switzerland, just as evidence of a similar 

 nature shows that other countries in Europe, as, for instance, 

 Denmark, England, Scotland, and Ireland, had also their 

 own foundries. The similarity of form and ornamentation 

 appears also to indicate some communication between dif- 

 ferent parts of Europe ; but as Cornwall and Saxony are the 



