162 HUMAN FOSSILS. in 



" At whatever conclusion we may arrive as to the 

 origin of the man from whence this fossil skull proceeded, 

 we may express an opinion without exposing ourselves to 

 a fruitless controversy. Each may adopt the hypothesis 

 which seems to him most probable: for my own part, I 

 hold it to be demonstrated that this cranium has belonged 

 to a person of limited intellectual faculties, and we con- 

 clude thence that it belonged to a man of a low degree 

 of civilization: a deduction which is borne out bv con- 

 trasting the capacity of the frontal with that of the oc- 

 cipital region. 



" Another cranium of a young individual was discov- 

 ered in the floor of the cavern beside the tooth of an ele- 

 phant ; the skull was entire when found, but the moment it 

 was lifted it fell into pieces, which I have not, as yet, been 

 able to put together again. But I have represented the 

 bones of the upper jaw, Plate I, Fig. 5. The state of the 

 alveoli and the teeth, shows that the molars had not yet 

 pierced the gum. Detached milk molars and some frag- 

 ments of a human skull, proceed from this same place. 

 The figure 3 represents a human superior incisor tooth, 

 the size of which is truly remarkable.* 



" Figure 4 is a fragment of a superior maxillary bone, 

 the molar teeth of which are worn down to the roots. 



" I possess two vertebrae, a first and last dorsal. 



"A clavicle of the left side (see Plate III, Fig. 1); 

 although it belonged to a young individual, this bone 

 shows that he must have been of great stature.f 



" Two fragments of the radius, badly preserved, do not 



* In a subsequent passage, Schmerling remarks upon 

 the occurrence of an incisor tooth " of enormous size ' 

 from the caverns of Engihoul. The tooth figured is some- 

 what long, but its dimensions do not appear to me to 

 be otherwise remarkable. 



t The figure of this clavicle measures 5 inches from end 

 to end in a straight line — so that the bone is rather a 

 small than a large one. 



