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simple et a double fil), twine and cord of various sizes, pieces of 
fishing nets and of linen cloth, which could not have been produced 
by plaiting, but must have been woven in the loom, although it 
may have been simple enough in its construction. Among these 
stuffs were found fringes ( ?), bindings ( ?), and specimens of in¬ 
tricate [diaper (?)], weaving (?) (des franges, des liseres et du 
tissage assez complique). By the side of the capsules of flax seed 
from Robenhausen are placed specimens from the indigenous flax- 
plant of Queensland, Australia, which appear to be smaller in size. 
Allowing the species to be the same, and the difference in climate 
not to be the cause, may not this have arisen from the successful 
cultivation of the plant by the l^e-dwellers, just as they increased 
the size of the apple? (See Nos. 32 and 34.) Seed capsules of 
the cultivated flax of Ireland are placed in the case to show the 
result attained in the present day by cultivation. 
50. Indigenous flax seed, Queensland, Australia, shown by M. H. 
Marsh, Esq., m.p., at the International Exhibition, 1862, and 
'presented by him. 
51. Cultivated flax seed, Ireland, presented by Mr. E. T. Stevens. 
CASE T. 
All deposited by Mr. E. T. Stevens , except stated to the contrary. 
The objects in this case are rather unmeaningly called Celts , not 
after the people of that name, but from the Latin word celtis , a 
chisel. 
These stone celts or hatchets are divided into three classes— 
1. Rectangular celts, with sides rough and thick. These are 
peculiarly a Scandinavian type (plate 7, fig. 1). 
2. Cylindrical celts, with sides rounded, one end generally 
terminating in a cone, and the other in a keen edge (plate 7, 
fig. 2). 
3. Celts more or less triangular in outline, with flat sides and 
edges sharp throughout the circumference (plate 7, fig. 3, 4). 
All the specimens exhibited belong to the second group, 
except No. 32. 
1. Stone hatchet (Sussex), chipped into form only. 
2. A rolled stone (Galway), unwrought , but exhibited as a form 
likely to be selected as giving little trouble to work, the end 
merely requiring to be rubbed to a cutting edge. 
3 and 4. Stone hatchets (Galway), made in the manner described, 
from such pebbles as No. 2. 
5. Stone hatchet (Ireland). 
6. Stone hatchet, dredged from the Thames at Battersea, August 
9th, 1861. 
7 . Stone hatchet (probably a dredged specimen, locality unknown). 
