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years; for every thing indicated that here, as at Lake Constance, we had 
eome upon the age of stone. at is most remarkable is that these 
piles, which are almost a foot in diameter, frequently with a projection 
at the top, have the appearance of being continued in a line into the 
island, p esti as we had observed the year befo ore at Isoletta, on Lake 
Var so that it is very probable that the island of Starnberg, “while 
ars ihe name of Isle of Roses (Roseninsel), from the beautiful roses 
which are cultivated there, is (like that of Lake Varése, and that of the 
little Lake of Inkwyl) an artificial island. 
ut piles alone si not satisfy us. Remains more characteristic must 
be found if we would demonstrate that there existed here, as in Switzer- 
land, constructions ate and inhabited by ies not by ae vers. Benz 
was not long in discovering fragments of pottery. These included, as in 
Bviteerland, vases of a black color, impe ety burned, aaioned with 
the , but yet rudely ornamented ne e edge, sometimes with a 
groove ‘pidielinaes with impressions made oy the fingers, or ith a ring 
of i impressions a by both the fore finger and thumb applied to the 
neck of the va 
Prof. von Siebold, our zoologist, looked earnestly for bones among the 
gd and in less than two duet pa e had found remains of the horse, 
the ox, the wild boar, and ‘Ke wolf. fans which was not least 
bon aia cen broken, ete er foe that the ey aad been accumulated 
es of ‘soimals to ‘ebact Pues 3 marr phe 
You will rape? mee dap an expedition so successful, how eager we 
were to return to Munich and make known our discoveries to our friends, 
it is the great news of the day ; Bavaria has its eS fae: 
that the impulse has been given, all will press to the wo rof, von 
Siebold starts to-morrow morning with Benz for the lake of Chiem. " Or- 
ders have already been given to drag around the island of Roses and I 
do not doubt that, below the ae, seen layer of mud, hatchets and 
hie of flint will be discovered. Next we must copie: the Austrian 
r I am convinced that they too are not wanting in piles. 
[The editor of the Journal de Genéve of July 6th, wide the ‘oneal 
Ba of t 
etnies og its most active members, Profs. v. a ‘and Moritz 
as already obtairied interesting results. Already the number 
of pls examined b eon with the assistance of Mr. Desor’s fisher- 
man, amounts to eight, distributed among six lakes; two in lake 
ekg one in lake Chiem, si in lake Scblier, one in lake Seeon, one in 
_ dake Ammer, and yet one more in another little lake. At lake Chiem, 
eon appears to be artificial, like the island of Roses in lake 
; 80 that a i) which, at the commencement of lacustrine 
ed so strange as to ‘pat it in piebi a is now decidedly estab- 
