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wrought in our opinions concerning the antiquity, and particularly of 
its occupation, of Europe, and consequently of Italy. I have neither 
the competence nor the opportunity to make any such investigations as 
had been done by M. Montelius. I was all the more satisfied and 
gratified to find that he, a prehistoric archeologist, had done so, and 
that his conclusions were so much in harmony with my own. 
Monsieur E. Vouge described the extreme west of Lake Neuchatel 
and changes which have taken place therein. He showed various 
Stratigraphic charts by which 'the strata of the different ages were 
known and to be recognized, and from this examination he arrived at 
a series of conclusions. The lowest, and consequently the earliest, 
Stratum containing evidence of human industry was that which be- 
longed to the neolithic age. But these people did not long remain at 
this point. Their houses and establishments, once burned, were never 
reconstructed. But their occupation of this country was evident, and 
that it was extended cannot at all be doubted. It was separate, dis- 
tinct, and anterior to that of the age of bronze or of the Helvetes, 
which followed. It is difficult to say at what epoch of time the men 
of the bronze age made their appearance on Lake Neuchatel. The 
Stations of bronze did not remain intact because of the movements of 
the lake, which, for 1,500 years or more, have changed the borders. 
There was, said M. Vouga, at this point a commercial station. There 
may have been also there, or in the neighborhood, a foundry or manu- 
factory, but he thought it more than likely to have been only a com- 
mercial station, for they found, in what might have been called or 
served as a warehouse or salesroom, swords in their scabbards, shears 
for shearing, and knives, also in their scabbards. All these were 
bound up in packages, whether separately or together is not stated, 
but tied together, as though they were intented for sale, or possibly 
for transportation, so, in any event, it was considered as a commercial 
Station, either of sale or transshipment. This was all covered with 
turf, and with the débris and clay, and is distinctly and definitely 
separated from the antiquities of the Gallo-Roman epoch, which are to 
be found on the turf and scattered through it. 
Monsieur Baron Joseph de Baye gave a résumé of his excavations in 
the Gauloise sepultures in Saint-Jean-sur-Tourbe, in the Department 
of Mame. There were two levels to these tombs, and the funeral fur- 
niture, torques, bracelets, fibulas, lances, beads of glass, of amber, of 
bone, etc., were exceedingly important, as they were in part different 
from anything that this district had yielded to this time. In one of 
the tombs was found the skeleton of a young man, from sixteen to 
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