354* On the Antiquity of the Gealic "Language. 



with the os basil iare of the occipital forms a very sensible 

 projection ; along the middle, of this basiliary part is a pro* 

 jec-img ridge, which becomes broader and 'is flattened to* 

 Wards the inferior edge of the occipital foramen. 



The rapes is small and very irregular : the foramen lace- 

 rum is large, and extends along the interior edge of the 

 rapes. 

 Length of the head from the edges of the occipital 



foramen to the edges of the incisor bones - 0*6 

 Distance between the most projecting part of the 



zygomatic apophysis - 0-43 



Height of the occiput counting from the lower edge 



ot the occipital foramen - - - 0*26 



Breadth between the apophyses placed behind the 



holes of the ears - 0*31 



Breadth between theorbitar apophyses of the frontal 0*23 

 Depth of the nasal notch -. '- -• - 0*15 

 Its height » - 0*095 



[To be continued.] 



LVIII. On the Antiquity of the Gealic Language. Bij 

 Cuthbert Gordon, M.D. 



Mr. Tilloch, 



Xf you deem the following observations on the antiquity 

 of. the Gealic language not entirely foreign to the nature of 

 your publication, and v/orthy of a place in it, you .wilj 

 oblige me by inserting them. 



I am, Sec. 



Cuthbert Gordon, 



The Gealic presents numbers with their names, which 

 no other language, the antient Hebrew only excepted, can do. 

 To know why those names are fixed to numbers we must 

 take them in their order, beginning at one. Doing so will 

 naturally show why they contain such excellent names, as- 

 it were, within themselves; and why those names, in pre- 

 ference to all others, are given to be our numbers. Their 

 order runs thus : 



THE 



