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neither to meet with these relatively good specimens at å time when 
other varieties were already declining towards the final degeneration 
of the type, nor to find here å peculiar variation of the foot nearly 
unknown among all the earlier varieties in Norway. When searching 
elsewhere for the more original stages of this variety of the foot, 
we notice in Sleswick and Jutland a few specimens indicating its 
earliest appearance already as early as in å middle stage of the 
development of the type, as seen in fig. 30, å brooch found in 
Sleswick, the foot of which is provided with two small projections 
at its upper end, which do not, however, influence the form of the 
rest of the foot. And in å brooch from Jutland, fig. 85,1) we see 
1) Jutland. Locality unknown. Copenhagen Museum, no. 0. 8719. — The 
drawing is most kindly afforded by the director, dr. SopHus MÖULLER. 
