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3. Of the two Pelasgic heads, one is perfect, and well character- 

 ised in most of its proportions. It has an internal capacity of 93 

 cubic inches, and a facial angle of 80°. The other head has lost 

 the bones of the face, whence its ethnographic relations are not so 

 obvious; and I have ventured to judge it by its cranial developments. 

 It is internally but two cubic inches smaller than the other. 



4. The solitary Semitic head, has rather the common Arab, than 

 the Hebrew cast of features. It measures internally 87 cubic 

 inches, and has a facial angle of 79°. 



The ages of the individuals 'to whom these seventeen skulls 

 pertained, may be proximately stated as follows: 5, 7,* 18, 20, 20, 

 25, 30, 40, 40, 40, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 55. 



The resuhs derived from this series of crania, sustain in a most 

 gratifying manner, those obtained from the greater collection of 

 one hundred skulls sent me from Egypt, by my friend, George R. 

 Gliddon, Esq., and which have afforded the materials of my Crania 

 Egyptiaca ; and without making further comparisons on the present 

 occasion, (for I design from time to time to resume the subject, as 

 facts and materials may come to my hands,)! shall merely subjoin 

 my Ethnographic table from the Crania ./Egyptiaca, so extended as 

 to embrace all the ancient Egyptian skulls now in my possession. 

 ■Ethnographic Table of one hundred and seventeen ancient Egyptian Crania. 



It remains for me to add, which I do with great pleasure, that I 

 am indebted for this second series of Egyptian Crania, to Mr. Wm. 

 A. Gliddon, of Cairo, who, prompted by that extraordinary interest 

 in Egyptian questions which seems inherent in his family, has 

 availed himself of every opportunity for extending our knowledge 

 of the people and the monuments of ancient Egypt. 



* The two juvenile heads are of course not used in calculating the mean 

 either of the size of the brain or the facial angle. 



