Since 1857, the existence of lake-dwellings has been discovered in Savoy, in upper Italy, in Hanover, in Prussia, and in Denmark. Less certain traces have been found in England, in draining a mere at Wretham Hall, near Thetford, in Norfolk. The savages of Borneo and New Guinea still live on the water, in huts perched upon platforms sup ported by piles; and wooden houses raised upon piles are common in Burmah and Siam, on the creeks and rivers of the strait of Malacca, and it is believed elsewhere in Asia. A bass-relief from the palace of Seunacherib, engraved, in Mr. Layard's Monuments of Sineveh, represents what seem to be artificial islands, formed, it would seem, by wattling together the tall reeds of the marshes on the lower part of the Euphrates.
The C. of Ireland are described in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vols. i., v vii.; Mr. Wilde's Catalogue of the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy; The Archeologi cal Journal, vols. iii., vi.; Mr. Digby Wyatt's Observations on the Early habitations of the 1858); Tint Ulster Journal of Archeology, No. 26; Proceedings of the Kilkenny Archeological Society, No. 27. The chief works on the lake-dwellings of Switzerland are Dr. Ferdinand Keller's three papers on IYahalbauten, and Dr. L. Rutimeyer's
tersuchung der Thierreste aus den. Pfahlbauten, all published in the Mitthcilungen tier Antiquarisehen Gesellscluzft in Zurich, band is., xii., xiii.; M. Frederic Troyon's Habita tions Laeustres de la Suisse (Lausanne, 1857); his Ossemens et AnticuitOs du Lac de Hoossedo7f, in the Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve, for May, 1857; his Details of Discov eries at the Lake Habitations of Switzerland, in the Ulster Journal of Arehaology, No. 29; MM. Alb. Jahn and J. Uhlmann's Die Pfahlbau-Alterthfirner von 3loossedoif (Bern, 1837); and M. A. Morlot's Etudes Geologico-Archeologiques en Danemark et en Suisse, in the Bulletin tie la Societg Vaudoise des Sciences Haturelles, t. vi. (Lausanne, 1860). The Scot tish C. are described in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. iii. On the subject of pile-buildings generally, reference may be made to Mr. W. M. Wyhe's paper On Lake-dwellings of the Early Periods, in the Archaologia, vol. xxxviii. (Land. 1860), and to papers in the Gentleman's Magazine for December, 1860, and February, 1861.