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1894 - 95 .] Dr R. Munro on Lake-dwelling Research. 
At the request of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Vienna 
Professor Von Hochstetter made an investigation of the Lakes of 
Carinthia and Carniola in search of lake-dwellings, a report of 
which was published in 1864:. But the result was, in the main, 
of a negative character, and with the exception of the Keutscha- 
chersee, the indications of Pfahlbauten observed were too prob- 
lematical to be of much scientific value. It was confidently 
expected that traces of them would be found in the Zirknitzersee, 
as the Chronicler Valvasor (1689) relates that on this lake there 
was an old bridge the piles of which he himself had seen, but, 
though carefully explored by Von Hochstetter and Dr Deschmann, 
nothing of the character suggested was found. 
Another locality surmised by Von Hochstetter to contain lake- 
dwellings, was the great Moor at Laibach. This surmise originated 
in the fact that, a few years previously, a couple of canoes and a 
few objects had been dug out of the moss. But it was some twenty 
years later before the very characteristic examples, whose industrial 
remains now fill a large room in the Laibach Museum, were dis- 
covered and investigated. 
The first report of lake-dwellings in the Attersee was published 
in 1871 by Count Wurmbrand and Mr Simony, and during the 
following five years further notices appeared, accordingly as fresh 
materials came to hand. 
The most interesting of all the stations in the Austrian lakes was 
that at See, in the Mondsee, the exploration of which, in 1872 
and subsequent years, was due to the indefatigable energy of Dr 
Much of Vienna, who realized thereby a large and instructive 
collection of antiquities. 
An important station of the Bronze Age was found at the Rosen 
Insel, in the Lake of Starnberg, and investigated under the superin- 
tendence of M. von Schab, the Government law officer at Starnberg. 
The settlement exposed by peat-cutters in the extensive deposits 
of peat at the upper end of the Federsee was constructed on 
principles analogous to those of the artificial islands. Instead of 
a platform raised on piles, there was a solid basement formed of 
layers of wood intermingled with clay and other materials. Mr 
Frank of Schussenried, its explorer, is in possession of a very fine 
collection of relics, all of the Stone Age. Among them I was 
