. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 348 PALAFITTES, OR LACUSTRIAN CONSTRUCTIONS At the present Lour the mine is far from being exhausted ; new treasures have been still added to those which we already possessed. And as the interest of the scientific public has not ceased to encourage us, we have not thought proper to resist the temptation held out to us by our friend, Mr. Reinwald, librarian at Paris, of giving to the essay in question a wider publicity, as well as greater ex
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 348 PALAFITTES, OR LACUSTRIAN CONSTRUCTIONS At the present Lour the mine is far from being exhausted ; new treasures have been still added to those which we already possessed. And as the interest of the scientific public has not ceased to encourage us, we have not thought proper to resist the temptation held out to us by our friend, Mr. Reinwald, librarian at Paris, of giving to the essay in question a wider publicity, as well as greater extent, accompanying it, on this occasion, with numerous engravings, which will allow amoPe thorough comparison with the an- tiquities of other localities, whether collected on firm land, in the tombs, the hypogeums, the dolmens, &c. As the lacustrian constructions, to which the antiquities of our lakes appertain, con- stitute at the present day a definite type, there would seem to be room for designating them by a specific name, like other monuments, such as dolmens, pyramids, &c. The Ger- man name of PJ'aJdbautcn, (constructions on pile-Avork,) proposed by M. , and now populai'ized iu Germany and Switzer- land, has been adopted by Italian archeolo- gists under the form oipalcifitta. Hence the appellation of ijalafitte which we propose to introduce into our language. In recommending the geological and pale- ontological methods for the study of our la- custrian antiquities, we must be understood as having imposed on ourselves the greatest reserve in determining the age of our differ- ent palafittes. There can be scarcely a ques- tion of dates, except for the epoch of iron. As to the ages of stone and bronze, we shall esteem ourselves fortunate if this essay shall furnish some terms of comparison to those who occupy themselves with the origin and afiSnities of the ancient races which have peo- pled Europe. As the antiquities of the age of stone are widely distri
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