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Bienne, but it was some years later before the others became sensibly 
affected. When, however, the works were finished, the permanent 
effect on these lakes, especially on Lake Neuchatel, was very 
marked — harbours, jetties, and extensive tracts of shore-land being 
left high and dry by the subsiding waters. This was the harvest- 
time of archaeology. Many of the sites of the lacustrine villages 
became dry land, and were visited by crowds of eager searchers ; 
even fishermen forsook their normal avocation, finding it more 
profitable to fish for pre-historic relics. Government at last 
interfered with this indiscriminate “ howking,” and passed a law 
restricting the privilege of excavating to the authorities of the 
respective Cantons in whose territories the stations happened to be. 
Thus, besides a large number of relics collected in the stuff raised 
up by the dredging machines, the “ Correction des Eaux du Jura,” 
as the undertaking was called, greatly facilitated the investigation 
of the lake-dwellings along the Jura waters. 
Another class of works which produced results favourable to 
lacustrine archaeology was the deepening of harbours, the construc- 
tion of jetties, &c., in the larger lakes, such as those of Zurich, 
Constance, Geneva, and Annecy. As an example, I may just 
instance the extensive alterations recently executed in the environ- 
ments of the town of Zurich which have so entirely changed the 
aspect of the town in the immediate vicinity of the lake that 
visitors, whose recollection of it dates farther back than these 
transformations, would hardly recognise the locality. A splendid 
bridge now spans the outlet of the Limmat, and on both sides of 
it are elegant promenades, gardens, and ornamental quays, which 
occupy what was formerly part of the lake. The filling up of this 
large area necessitated the use of dredgers, by means of which gravel 
and mud were raised from the most convenient shallows along the 
shore and transported as required. Among the localities selected for 
such operations were the “Grosser Hafner” and the outskirts of 
Bauschanze. The rich loamy deposits of the “ Haumessergrund ” 
at Wollishofen were found to be a suitable soil for the floral and 
horticultural gardens. All these localities turned out to be the 
sites of lake-dwellings, and yielded an enormous amount of industrial 
remains of all ages. Indeed, the collection of relics from Wollis- 
hofen, now deposited in the Museum of Zurich, must be considered 
