[7] Both in Switzerland and in the neighbourhood of the Pyrenees. [8] _In height_, that is. The distance of coast-line which disappears owing to the mere volcanic depression, or the distance of coast-line which appears on the other shore from volcanic upheaval (independently of river deposits, etc.), depends of course upon the level of the coast. It would not, however, be generally more than a yard or two. [9] Probably as altars or perhaps as gods themselves. I desire to speak with great caution of the rude stone monuments of Europe; for of all branches of prehistoric study this has been the least developed by modern research. [10] It seems highly probable that the invention of some sort of malt liquor followed upon the growth of corn. Tacitus mentions such a liquor as having been drunk by the Germans of his day. He is doubtless describing a sort of beer. [11] But not sheep apparently; at least not in Western Europe. In these islands the sheep did not appear before the time of Julius Cæsar. [12] _Hamlet_, act v., sc. 1. [13] M. Troyon has started the idea that the crouched attitude of the dead--_repliée_, as he describes it: he declares that it does not in the least resemble the crouched attitude which men of some races assume when sleeping--was imposed upon the dead with a symbolical meaning, viz. that it was meant to imitate the position of the child in the womb of its parent, and as such to enfold the hope of resurrection in the act of entombment. The idea is a poetical one, but I much doubt whether it has pre-existed in other minds before finding a place in that of M. Troyon. The author, however, should be heard in defence of his own theory, and may be so in the _Revue Arch._, ix. 289. [14] Some of the varieties of grain found in these lake-dwellings are not otherwise known to botanists. [15] The Phœnicians are said by tradition to have invented the manufacture of glass. But there is no proof of this. [16] Of course the making of very rude huts of branches and leaves may have been practised by these--such huts as formed the only shelter of the Tasmanians down to our day. For an imaginative description of the most primitive house, see Violet de Duc, _The Houses of Men in all Ages_, ch. i. [17] The simile is Mr. Max Müller’s. [18] In English we have _grind_, _grate_, (_s_)_cra_(_pe_), _grave_ (German _graben_, ‘to dig;’ Eng. ‘grub.’) All words for writing mean cutting, because all writing was originally graving on a stone: thus the Latin _scribo_ (corrupted in the French to _écris_), in the Greek is _grapho_, in the German _schreibe_. These words, as well as the English _write_, are known to be all from the same root; it is not pretended that they are _proofs_ of a natural selection of sound; but they may be instances of it. [19] The reader, however, may be referred to Tylor’s _Early History of Mankind_, ch. iv., for much interesting information on the subject.