324 General Notes. [March, 
eral times catching Wad by one hind leg and giving Barney a 
chance to get up again. 
Several witnesses who climbed up and saw the fight over the 
high board fence corroborated this part of the statement by the 
workman. 
When I saw Barney after the fight he was lying in the chosen 
place he had driven Wad from, with all the puppies and bitches 
around him.— To de continued. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. ' 
Tue Proro-HELveEtTiAns (continued)—The age of bronze shows 
a marked advance on preceding ages. The villages of that period 
were more extensive, the dwellings, as is shown by the planks 
and main timbers which still exist, larger. In each village there 
appears to have been an open place where work was undertaken . 
that could not well be done indoors. The discovery on the sites 
of the lacustrine villages of Neuchatel and Bienne, of molds, 
crucibles, metal broken for the melting pot, damaged and half- 
repaired tools and weapons, is sufficient to disprove the theory 
that the workshops were on the land. There is reason to believe 
that the stations of the bronze age, unlike those of the stone age, 
were more or less contemporaneous. Except in unimportant de- 
tails, the remains of that period hitherto brought to light possess 
the same general features, and none of the villages appears to 
have outlived the others. 
Some of the swords of the bronze age are elegantly shaped 
and exquisitely worked. They were probably worn by the chiefs, 
and served rather as badges of authority than as weapons of 
offense. The form of them is that of a willow leaf, and their 
length varies from seventeen to twenty-three inches. The blades 
are generally ornamented with several parallel bands and fastened 
to the hilt with rivets. One of the finest specimens found at Lor- 
cas, in addition to'the bands, is ornamented with a series of punc- 
tured lines, and the hilt, which is bossed in the center, has a short 
cross-guard. The total length of the blade is 23.89 inches (six- 
ty-seven centimeters), the hilt measures only eight centimeters. 
None of the hilts are much larger, and judging by the size of 
ranean cto the lake-dwellers must have had remarkably small 
The hilt of a sword found at Mcerigen appears to have been 
-ornamented with ivory or amber, and its blade of cast bronze is 
inlaid with thin plates of iron, the metal, which is now the com- 
‘monest of all, being in that age the most precious. The blades 
=~ Of all these swords are straight and pointed, and designed rather 
_ for thrusting than for cutting. . 
But the gem of Dr. Gross’s collection is a steel sword found at 
3 _ Corcelettes.. The fact that it is steel has been proved by analy- 
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