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quite to fit, and my thumb and third finger into the side openings 

 (see sketch, fig. 3, where this instrument is figured to the same 

 scale as the other bronzes, figs. 2 and 4), I could get a complete 

 command of the instrument, for applying its sharp edges to the 

 face, in the supposed act of shaving. It had in this way a 

 steadiness and efficiency not only not possessed by the Irish 

 specimens, but scarcely equalled by our own modern razors. I 

 think it not impossible, therefore, this may have been the way in 

 which it was used ; and if the solid and straight double-bladed 

 bronze implements of the Irish Museum were razors ; this may 

 probably have been one, and apparently even an improvement on 

 them. 



Fig, 4. 



Bronze Implement, found in the remains of a Lacustrine Habitation at Stein- 

 berg, near Nidau, Switzerland. (Scale, one-half of size.) 



Swiss Bronze Implement. — In the valuable work of M. Frederic 

 Troy on, on the " Lacustrine Habitations of Ancient and Modern 

 Times," figures are given of various bronze relics found in Switzer- 

 land ; and in plate x. fig. 8, there is a drawing of an implement of 

 bronze, which corresponds in character to the one found near Currie, 

 the pattern being but slightly different ; inasmuch as a straight 

 and perforated handle, terminating also in an open ring, projects 

 from the rounded side of a single crescent-shaped blade of bronze ; 

 the points of the crescent, however, approach one another so 

 closely, that its general resemblance to that found at Kinleitb, 



