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in relation with the shell-heaps of Kjokkenmoddings. In some of the vitrines the long, graceful flint flakes are piled ten deep. The stone age of Denmark, as of Sweden^[[,]] assumes the neolithic type. There is as yet no palaeolithic age. As soon as you pass within^[[, you are in]] the presence of leaf-shaped blades, daggers, celts, the largest in the world, (some measuring over 16 inches in length) crescent shaped blades, sharpening stones, arrow heads as delicate as those of California Indian specimens, and innumerable forms in bone and antlers. 

My next journey was to Copenhagen, the city of Thorwaldsden, Nyerup, Thornsen, Worsaae, and later of Sophus Muller, Herbst, Holm and Bahnson. 

For its size Copenhagen is the best equipped city in the world for ^[[the]] ethnologist. Commencing with archaeology, the stone age repeats the story of Stockholm, with enough variety to make one glad to visit both. From the earliest appearance of man in Danish Territory you are able to trace him down to the historic period. The objects [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] are classified by material, [[underlined]] f^[[o]]rm [[/underlined]] ^[[?]], and period. The bronze age rooms are even more instructive and thought-inspiring. Gold and [[underlined]] ambe [[strikethrough]] i an [[/strikethrough]] ^[[r are]] [[/underlined]] here in luxurious abundance. Even in thos^[[e]] early times these sea-faring Danes must have learn-