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of amber. Little bits of bone, and teeth, are also found 
strung together for the same purpose. Pins, and skewers of 
wood or bone, to tie up the hair, and fasten the dress with, are 
likewise often found with such articles. The stone imple- 
ments used for domestic purposes are of the simplest kind, 
especially those for crushing and triturating the kernels of 
nuts, and subsequently (but after a long interval) for grinding 
the corn. Of the latter, we have several good specimens in 
the museum of the Leeds Philosophical Society, 01 e of which 
was found by myself, built into the garden wall of a farm- 
house, near Cookridge Hall. There is no doubt but that 
weapons, and implements of all sorts, were made of wood at 
the same time, and even before this stone period. But from 
the perishable material of which they were composed, few 
could be accidentally preserved till now. However, some are 
occasionally turned up in the peat, where they appear to have 
been deposited as vessels containing butter or fat. The peat 
moss seems to have been used as a cellar or larder, before the 
discovery of the curative property of salt, or even the know- 
ledge of the existence of that abundant mineral in this 
country. For the Greek historians tell us, that salt was one 
of the imported articles, brought by the ancient merchants, 
and used by them as barter for our native metallic products. 
Butter, cheese, and tallow, are frequently found sunk deep 
in the Irish bogs, sometimes in large masses, converted 
into a sort of stearine, although generally every particle of 
the wooden vessel which contained this substance had utterly 
disappeared. Mr. Wilson, in his " Pre- historic annals of 
Scotland," does not seem to have been aware of this curious 
fact, for he writes, at page 31, " Mr. Joseph Train mentions 
having seen a ball of fat, or bannock of tallow, weighing 
twenty-seven pounds, found in the peat-moss, and which, no 
doubt, was a mass of adipocere, indicating the spot where some 
large animal had perished in the moss" This is about the most 
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