. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ixture of stone and the straight flat bronze hatchets be-longing to the earliest period; the third, the great city of Morges, inwhich the implements found, to the number of five or six hundred, allbelonged to the fine age of bronze—no stone. Here there could havebeen no contemporaneity—no mixture. Each must have been destroyedbefore the other began. That this could be, is proved from what weknow from history, for the present town of Morges has existed for athousand or fifteen hundred years, until 1854, without a suspicion
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ixture of stone and the straight flat bronze hatchets be-longing to the earliest period; the third, the great city of Morges, inwhich the implements found, to the number of five or six hundred, allbelonged to the fine age of bronze—no stone. Here there could havebeen no contemporaneity—no mixture. Each must have been destroyedbefore the other began. That this could be, is proved from what weknow from history, for the present town of Morges has existed for athousand or fifteen hundred years, until 1854, without a suspicion thatthese other three towns had consecutively existed on its site. In the Lake of Geneva there are fifteen or twenty stations belongingto the neolithic age and twenty-five or thirty to the bronze age. In thecommon cantonal map there is shown in Lake Bienne two stations ofthe stone age, four of bronze, and four of iron—in Lake Morat five ofstone, four of bronze, and two of iron—in Lake Feuchatel nineteen of Report of National Museum, 1 888.—Wilson. Plate
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