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[[underlined]] Chapter XIX. [[/underlined]] 417.a.

been very poorly done, and might have been due in part to accident, through the tin and lead (both revealed by the examination) having been present in the original ore before smelting. Dr. Foshag says further: "The material is, however, an undoubted artificial product and cannot be a form of metal found in the natural state. It indicates a knowledge of smelting, although the crudity of the alloy would suggest a rather primitive state of that knowledge". 
   It occurs to me, in this connection, that we must take into consideration the possibility that mining and smelting were not being done locally at the time when the Shih Hsiang culture flourished; and that therefore the bronze