CONCLUDING REMARKS ON LA TÈNE.--In face of the above facts, the opinion of the earlier investigators that La Tène was an ordinary palafitte of the Iron Age, analogous to the lake-villages of the preceding ages, can no longer be entertained. Its geographical position, commanding the great highway between Constance and Geneva, and the vast preponderance of warlike weapons among its relics, clearly point to its having been a military station or outlook. Nor does it require much penetration to learn from its present ruins something of its final fate. The quantity of human bones representing some 30 or 40 individuals, some with gashes on the tops of their skulls; the number of abandoned swords, still in their scabbards; the incongruous medley of relics found by Vouga at the bottom of the ancient river-bed--all indicate that its capture by an enemy was sudden and the struggle fierce. The discovery of Roman remains, such as coins, tiles, pottery, bricks (one with the mark of the 21st legion, "Rapax"),[47] on and around La Tène, leave little doubt that its conquerors were the Romans. _Literature._--B. 22, 31, 72, 95, 119, 126, 419, 420_a_', 420_b_', 420_c_, 428, 434_a_, 446, 449_a_", and 463_c_. Also Virchow on the human remains in vols. xv. and xvi., _Zeit. für Ethn. Verhand._ LAKE PALADRU. From time immemorial a legend prevailed among the inhabitants around Lake Paladru that a city had been buried in its waters--a catastrophe brought about by the maledictions of the monks of the neighbouring Carthusian establishment of Sylve Bénite. On the 24th September, 1864, M. Vallier, of Grenoble, and some friends arranged a boating excursion for the purpose of examining the lake as to the reported existence of piles in it, with the view of accounting for the currency of the above legend, and found no less than six different sites where piles were to be seen projecting more or less from the mud. These were supposed to be the remains of lacustrine villages of which the following particulars were ascertained:-- 1. STATION DES GRANDS ROSEAUX.--This station was situated near the head of the lake, and about two hundred yards from shore; depth of water from one to two feet; piles sometimes three feet apart, and sometimes much less; over 150 were counted. 2. STAT. DE L'ILE DE LOYASSE.--Two hundred and fifty yards from the former, and about 100 yards from shore. Only about twenty piles were counted. 3. STAT. DE LA GENEVRIÈRE.--About 600 yards farther on and 70 yards from shore. About twenty piles counted. 4. STAT. DE LA NEYRE.--About 200 yards from the preceding, and close to the shore. 5. STAT. DU PLÂTRE.--About thirty piles counted in water from 10 to 13 feet deep. 6. STAT. DU PUITS DES CARPES.--Fifty or sixty piles observed close to each other and about 20 yards from the shore.