AMERICAN 



JOURIAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 



[SECOND SERIES.] 



Art. XYl.— On the Ancient Lake Habitations of Switzerland; by 

 John Lubbock, Esq., F.R.S.* 



[The interest attached to the subject of Mr. Lubbock's me- 

 jaoir warrants its republication, as but few American readers 

 i^j access to the original. M. Morlot, whose researches are 

 alluded to in this article, will be well remembered by the read- 

 ^s of this Journal from his paper entitled '(reneral views on 

 ^rchc^ology,' published in vol. xxix.] 

 Archeology forms the link between Geology and History— 

 "^ past and the present. If in its more recent portions it is 

 scarcely distinguishable from History, yet when we pass back to 

 ^s commencement, we find ourselves to have imperceptibly gli- 

 ded into the domain of Geology, without noticing any boundary 

 separate the one from the otber. The begin ing of Archseol- 

 ■"-mg, in fact, but the end of Geology, it is not surprising 

 *-T should, in the course of their development, have pre- 

 sorae remarkable analogies. M. Morlot has well pointed 

 'ut in his " Legon d'ouverture d'un cours sar la haute anti- 

 - ,;- iuii a I'Academie de Lausanne." 



^ -'^en, indeed, as the remains of extinct animals were at first 

 -jPPosed to be few and far between, whereas, in fact, the surface 

 ■^ ^ne earth is made up of the dust and skeletons of our pred- 

 cessorg, so the relics of man, long looked upon as rare and ex- 

 ^Ptional in their occurrence, are gradually presenting themselves 

 "" unexpected profusion. Loth, however, to distrust the existing 



