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are others in which the cranial roof becomes remarkably 

 depressed, the skull, at the same time, elongating so much 

 that, probably, its capacity is not diminished. The ma- 

 jority of skulls possessing these characters which I have 

 seen, are from the neighbourhood of Port Adelaide in 

 South Australia, and have been used by the natives as 

 water vessels ; to which end the face has been knocked 

 away, and a string passed through the vacuity and the 

 occipital foramen, so that the skull was suspended by the 

 greater part of its basis. 



Figure 31 represents the contour of a skull of this kind 

 from "Western Port, with the jaw attached, and of the 

 E'eanderthal skull, both reduced to one third of the size 

 of nature. A small additional amount of flattening and 

 lengthening, with a corresponding increase of the supra- 



FiG. 31. — An Australian skull from Western Port, in the Museum of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, with the contour of the Neanderthal skull. Both 

 reduced to one-third the natural size. 



