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haps be taken at thirty years or over, and the height at about 
six feet. 
2. Of the other skeleton we possess the occipital half of the 
cranium and the lower half of the face, and fortunately these two 
fragments fit each other at a small point on the base, so that 
with a little trouble they can be placed in their proper relative 
positions. The cranial fragment comprises the whole of the 
occipital bone, with portions of the sphenoid, temporals, and 
parietals. The facial fragment embraces the superior maxilla, 
with scraps of the palate and sphenoid bones, and the entire 
lower jaw. The spinal column is represented by the three 
upper cervical, by portions of three or four dorsal, of two or 
three lumbar vertebree, and by that part of the sacrum formed 
by its coalesced arches and spinous processes, to the lower end of 
which part of the coceygeal bone is anchylosed. The first rib of 
the right side, and broken pieces of fifteen others, are all that 
remain of the chest. Of the upper extremities there exist the 
right scapula, imperfect, both clavicles nearly entire, the long 
bones, all a good deal broken, four metacarpals and one finger 
bone. Of the lower extremities we have part of the pelvis, the 
long bones much damaged, the left patella, the ossa calcis and 
astragalus, five or six metatarsals, and two toe bones. These 
are all large, strongly made, with ridges and hollows well mark- 
ed, show no trace of epiphyses, and appear to have belonged to 
a man about five feet ten inches in height. 
The following details respecting the bones of this skeleton and 
the inferences drawn therefrom, may not be devoid of interest. 
The skull, which appears to have been brachy-cephalic, was 
posteriorly of large size, well rounded and smooth, the cerebral 
portion being capacious and the cerebellar fosse small. The 
frontal outline altogether wanting ;. the right side of the cranium 
very deficient; the parietal contour very imperfect; the sagittal 
suture almost obliterated. When the two fragments of the 
skull are fitted together as correctly as possible, a book fully an 
inch thick being placed under the occiput, the highest part of 
the cranium lies directly over the auditory foramina. The point 
that projects farthest backwards is one inch and a quarter above 
