. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fig. 4.— Vase of the Bronze Age. The Lacustrine Dwellings of the Stone Age have given up a fewtraces of men. The remains of lake-dwellers have been found mostlyin Switzerland, but somewhat in Ireland and Scotland. These reveal apeople who built their huts for safety upon piles or upon fascines an-chored in the small lakes. A variety of interesting things, consisting ofspear-heads, knives, hatchets, etc., have been found, some of flint, some. Fig. 5.—Bronze Aye. of bone, and some of bronze. Among these, whic
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . Fig. 4.— Vase of the Bronze Age. The Lacustrine Dwellings of the Stone Age have given up a fewtraces of men. The remains of lake-dwellers have been found mostlyin Switzerland, but somewhat in Ireland and Scotland. These reveal apeople who built their huts for safety upon piles or upon fascines an-chored in the small lakes. A variety of interesting things, consisting ofspear-heads, knives, hatchets, etc., have been found, some of flint, some. Fig. 5.—Bronze Aye. of bone, and some of bronze. Among these, which pertain to our subject,are a few pots of clay, which have survived the gnawing tooth of Time. In Figs. 1 and 2 are to be seen two of these. They are coarse andclumsy, and are of blackish-gray clay, hardened in the sun or in aninsufficient fire. They are not turned upon a wheel, but show marks 16 POTTERY AND PORGELAIX.
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