[136] Lloyd Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Central America (London, 1854), p. 94.
[137] Lyell, Antiquity of Man (London, 1873), p. 161.
[138] I am informed by an eye-witness, that the Australian savages, in climbing trees, use implements nearly similar to these, to cut notches for their feet. The implement is held in the hand, without any handle. Others are used in handles, either fastened with gum, or consisting of a withe passed round the stone and tied underneath.
[139] Mr. Frere’s first discovery was in 1797 (Archaeologia, xiii. p. 204). (M. Boucher de Perthes began work in 1837 (De la Création, Paris, 1838), and published his Antiquités Celtiques et Antédiluviennes (vol. i) in 1847. His discoveries were, however, not verified and accepted by the British observers till 1858-9.—Ed.)
[140] See figures 23 and 32, as well as figure 17 a from Central India.
[141] March 5, 1868. Proc. Soc. Ant. Lond. 2nd Ser. iv. p. 85: Archaeologia, xlii.
[142] Nilsson, The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia, edited by Sir John Lubbock (London, 1868), Editor’s Introduction, p. xxiv.
[143] The handle, since its discovery, has been fractured in four places, and has shrunk a good deal from its original size.
[144] Cf. Kemble, Horae Ferales (London, 1863), p. 134.
[145] Keller, The Lake Dwellings of Switzerland, transl. by J. E. Lee (2nd ed. London, 1878), vol. i. pp. 111-3.