Lake Dwellings
in anthropology , in anthropology tions lacustrines of French writers. The earliest account of similar dwellings is to be found in Herodotus, who describes small mountain lake of what is now a Thracian tribe living, in 520 B. c., in a Rumelia. The custom of constructing present day. The fishermen of Lake these these habitations has come down to the Prasias, near Salonica, still inhabit wooden cottages built over the water, as the Thracian tribes did, and in the East Indies Indies the practice of building lake setcommon. land came to light during the winter The lake dwellings proper of Switzermonths of 1853-1854, when the water of level. Dr. Keller, who first described the lakes fell much below its ordinary platform was made of round timbers, these lake dwellings, says that the main rarely of split boards, covered with a bed of mud; the walls and sides were in great measure of interlaced branches, the interstices filled with moss and daubed with clay. pally in Ireland, where they served the Also artificial islands found principurpose of strongholds. In this case but of a solid mass of mud, stones, etc., "the support consisted not of piles only, dicular stakes, the latter serving less as with layers of horizontal and perpentogether." a support than to bind the mass firmly LAKE EDWARD or Africa, on the boundary line between WARD NYANZA, a lake of Central EDof Central ED- Uganda and the Belgian Congo. The that er- Zambezi 100 miles and nice by towerwhore peaks gre el Discovered Prince Albert, y of Louisians. and on the the Louisiana Baz and North- Pacific, and the and Southern Charles. Its Federal build- Industries inflamber, ice, etc. It is the Kumbar and oducing region. 20) 18,088.
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