G. Finlay on Prehistoric Archeology in Greece. 523 
I have since collected several specimens of stone implements, 
particularly celts, that is, axes and chisels very similar in form sa 
those found in the lake dwellings of Switzerland. I hav 
to the Museum, with a similar piece which rocured at 
in ecsot: storic times, and where there is still a ae Two 
small axes found at Orchom menas, near the lake Copais, were 
ihe cf me by Mr. Merlin, Her Majesty’ s Consul for Northern 
Tako dwellings continued to exist in Macedonia down to the 
time of Herodotus. His description (Terpsichore, v, 16) proves 
that the dwellings of the Pzeonians, in the Lake Prasias, were 
very similar to those constructed on the lakes of Switzerland. 
E- ae who dell on the lake Prasias construct their dwellings 
n this mann Jenks fix strong ape in the lake, and on these 
ails they Sesicte * , making a bridge with a narrow entrance 
from the land. es supporting the planks were in former 
times end by om nee in common, but afterward the 
law established that every one who married a wife (and they 
take many = should bring down from Mount Orbelos 
three piles and fix them in the lake. The manner of their 
dwellings is in this fashion. Each man has his own hut on the 
piles, and a trap door through the flooring by which he can 
descend to the lake. The young children are tied by the foot 
lest they should fall into the water.” The lake Prasias is the 
lake of the ptgmmos of Thucydides, v, 7, the Kerkinites of 
Arrian, Anab. i, 11, 8, and is now called Tac 2 be from a 
village on its he side. The fisheries are still valuable as 
they were in ancient times, and the fish caught hs pegs are 
principally carp, tench and eels. (Leake, Travels in Northern 
Greece, vol. iii, 19 
The 2 deectaswon which Herodotus gives of these lake Labte 
ings makes it an object of the greatest importance to the 
on which age were constructed are said to have been 
observed in the lake Prasias, in 1862, by Monsieur Deville of 
Ecole francaise dAthénes. But a superficial examination 
might easily lead to considering stakes for nets or fishing huts 
