32 CHEPEWYANS. 



In addition to these tribes, a detached portion 

 of the 'Tirme people is mentioned by Dr. Latham, 

 under the name of Southern Athabascans. They 

 occupy the sea-coast from the north bank of the 

 Oregon southwards, to the River Umqua, in 43J° 

 of lat. For an account of these, I must refer the 

 reader to the works of the author just named, and 

 to the Transactions of the American Ethnological 

 Society from which he quotes. 



Dr. Latham may, also, be consulted for an ac- 

 count of four or five isolated languages, spoken 

 by tribes that interpose between the North and 

 South Athabascans to the west of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, and for notices of the inhabitants of the 

 Archipelago skirting that coast. The Kolush 

 language ends, he thinks, at the north end of King 

 George's Archipelago. 



The Chenooks, one of these isolated people, are 

 noted for their habit of flattening the foreheads of 

 their infants artificially, a custom which crosses 

 the continent southwards to the coast of Florida, 

 and was practised, though not exactly in the same 

 way, by the extinct Peruvian races of Lake Titi- 

 caca. 



* Among some good examples of flattened skulls from the 

 west coast of America, in the Museum at Haslar, there is the 

 remarkable one of Comcomly, the hero of Washington Irving's 

 Astoria. 



