CHAP. XVII. ] Kjikken-midding. 307 
annually would pay for the water, and keep the place in 
repair; and besides tending to be a blessing to thousands, 
it would be an interesting and conspicuous ornament to the 
town, and one of the most refreshing which modern inge- 
nuity and gratitude could devise or rear. Supposing that 
some of our philanthropic friends, who may wish to have 
their names carried down to future generations as being 
benefactors and lovers of their species, might yet think well 
of our suggestion, and give us a fountain, could not our 
cross be placed upon it as a crowning stone? We think 
so. And sure we are that no better emblem, nor one more 
expressive, could be given to a place of the kind. But al- 
though nothing of this kind may take place, still we would 
urge the restoration of our old and venerable cross.” 
The article produced no results. The suggestion about 
the cross trod upon the toes of some person of local in- 
fluence, and the idea of its restoration was soon stamped 
out. The drinking-fountain also remains to be erected. 
Edward was more successful in his investigations of the 
Kjékken-médding at Boyndie—a much more interesting 
piece of antiquity. Kitchen-middens, or refuse heaps, have 
been discovered in large numbers along the shores of the 
Danish islands. Not less than a hundred and fifty have al- 
ready been found in Denmark. They consist chiefly of 
castaway shells, of the oyster, mussel, cockle, and periwin- 
kle, intermixed with the bones of quadrupeds, birds, and 
fish. Some of them also contain fragments of pottery and 
burned clay, and rude implements of stone and bone, which 
were evidently dropped by those who took their meals 
in the vicinity of the heaps, or who threw them away as 
useless, 
These shell-mounds vary in height, in breadth, and in 
length. They are from three to ten feet high, and some- 
times extend to a thousand feet in length, while they vary 
from a hundred to two hundred feet in width. It is evi- 
dent, from these remains, that some prehistoric people were 
