In another knife, which is represented in fig. 218, taken from the same work, the handle is formed by a human figure, executed with some degree of fidelity. The figure is in a standing position, and holds in front of it a nearly cylindrical-shaped vessel; the individual is represented as wearing large earrings. There is every reason to believe that this last-mentioned article belongs to the end of the bronze epoch, or else to a transitionary epoch between this and the following, for the blade is straight, like those of all the knives belonging to the iron age. [Illustration: Fig. 218.--Danish Bronze Knife of the Bronze Epoch.] The same thing may, doubtless, be said of several razors (fig. 219) with straight blades, which appear even overloaded with ornaments; among these embellishments is an attempt to represent a sort of vessel. [Illustration: Fig. 219.--Blade of a Danish Razor of the Bronze Epoch.] These designs evidently point to some very advanced period in the bronze epoch; and perhaps these objects may belong to the commencement of the iron age. What, we may ask, was the wearing apparel of man during the period we are describing? A very important discovery, made in 1861, in a _tumulus_ in Jutland (Denmark), has lately supplied us with the most accurate _data_ respecting the way in which the inhabitants of the north of Europe were clothed during the bronze epoch. In this _tumulus_ MM. Worsaae, and Herbst found three wooden coffins, one of which was smaller than the two others, and was no doubt that of a child. One of the two larger coffins was minutely examined by these _savants_, and measured inside 7 feet in length and 20 inches in width. It was closed up by means of a movable lid. By an extremely rare chance the soft parts of the body had been to some extent preserved, and had become converted into a black greasy substance. The bones were decomposed, and had decayed into a kind of blue powder. The brain had preserved its normal conformation. They found it at one end of the coffin (where the head had lain); it was still covered with a woollen cap, about 6 inches high, to which several black hairs were adhering. Several woollen garments, in which the body had been buried, were also found in different parts of the coffin. We add a description of these garments.