Reviews — Harmer’s Testimony of the Rocks. 
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to their fund of information concerning these lacustrine kabi- 
tations, the peoples that inhabited them, their domesticated animals, 
the beasts of the chase which they hunted, their weapons, and the 
rüde arts and manufactures which they practised. Other sonrces of 
information have also been largely drawn upon in Order to show 
that lake-dwellings existed in other parts of Europe, and also in 
Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, which in many respects may be con- 
sidered analogous to certain peculiar constructions fonnd in Switzer- 
land, although of later date. The translator has contributed 
liberally from bis own stores of antiquarian lore towards the Inter- 
pretation of innumerable points of interest bearing upon the fabri- 
cation and uses of the thousand and one objects which have been 
dug or dredged up from amid the pile- works of these truly wonderful 
Pfahlbauten. 
The new edition is largely increased as regards the number of its 
illustrations, as well as in the subject-matter contained in the text itself. 
The book is far removed from a mere translation. On nearly every 
page Mr. Lee has added some fresh piece of information, collected 
from innumerable sources, which tends greatly to enhance the value 
and usefulness of the work. 
By the courtesy of Mr. Lee, we are permitted to reproduce a 
most interesting and remarkable view of the stumps of the piles 
which once supported the Lake-dwelling of Moringen, a Settlement 
of the Bronze age on the shores of the Lake of Bienne, which con- 
veys at a glance a wonderful idea of the extent of one of these 
settlements and the labour involved in its erection. We hope soon 
to have the new edition before us, and will not therefore now say 
more as to its increased usefulness, but will reserve the description 
of Moringen and other points of interest for a later notice. 
II. — The ‘-'Testimony of the Bocks” in Norfolk. A Populär 
Description of the Geology of the County. By F. W. Harmer, 
F G.S. pp. 38. (London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.) 
T HIS sketch of the geology of Norfolk was delivered as a lecture 
at Norwich in March, 1877, and gives in an easy and inter- 
esting form an account of the great physical changes which the area 
has undergone since Cretaceous times. The method of formation 
of the Chalk, the Norwich Crag, the Forest-Bed, and the Glacial 
deposits are especially dwelt upon. Accompanying this little work 
is an excellent coloured geological section from Hunstanton Cliff to 
Great Yannoutk, on which the relations of the various strata are 
well shown, while the beds passed tkrough in the deep wells at 
Norwich and Yarmouth are particularly noticed. The “ Carstone ” 
of Hunstanton, of Lower Greensand age, is grouped as Neocomian, 
under the local name of “ Sandringham Beds.” These beds are 
stated to consist of sand with shingle-beds in their upper part in the 
extreme north-west of Norfolk, and which, wkere indurated, are called 
Carstone. We can heartily recomtnend Mr. Harmer’s lecture to 
those who wish to grasp the maiu features of the geology of Norfolk 
without entering into the details. 
