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rations at his own cost, and in whose presence some of the most 
valuable discoveries have been made. He now owns the richest 
private collection of Lacustrine relics in existence, and at the 
request of many brother antiquaries, he has published thirty- 
three phototype plates, reproduced from photographs taken by 
himself, of his more important finds. The number of the objects 
depicted is nearly 1000, and being fac-similies of the originals, 
and half, and in some instances three-fifths, of the natural size, 
the illustrations, elucidated by the doctor’s suggestive comments, 
are almost as interesting and instructive as a visit to the collec- 
tion at Neuveville, according to Professor Morel, of Morges, a 
high authority, the most valuable, if not the largest, known to 
archeology. 
Notwithstanding the doubts that have been expressed to the 
every new discovery lends additional confirmation. There are 
Swiss lake dwellings where not a vestige of metal has been met 
with. There are others in which a few tools or arms of pure 
copper, and, exceptionally, of bronze are found. It is therefore a 
safe inference, as it is antecedently probable, that the use of cop- 
per preceded the use of bronze. In other stations, again, bronze 
preponderates and stone disappears. Last of all comes iron, first 
as a precious metal, ornamenting and encrusting the bronze 
which in the end it was destined to replace. A noteworthy fact is 
‘ the comparative rareness of ruined villages of the age of bronze. 
On Lake Bienne there have been found the vestiges of thirteen 
villages of the stone age, and two only of the age of bronze; but 
the latter are far the more extensive. 
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