106 \n< LENT INHABITANTS OF THE COTSWOLD IIUJ.s. 



Bame spot, indicates the rise of the sun cm the shortest day of the 

 year. A Large stone at Stanton Drew, called Hautville, also called 

 Hakime or HaMllsooit, indicates the rising sun also. Regarding the 



shape of the skulls of these races, the first small race presents the 



same character in form as the Eskimo of the present day. 



The see. m, I rare ha\e Long skulls, measuring more than 21in. in 

 circumference ; I5in. from the foramen magnum, over the head, to the 



: of the aose : and Llin. over the vertex from ear to ear. This 

 measurement was mil- in LSIJO. The bones of the skulls also vary 

 ly in thickness. The above measurement would induce the 

 examiner to class tins race with the cave men. Although the bones 

 of this rare are found in long harrows, under certain conditions, they 

 differ considerably from the skulls found in the chambers of the heart- 

 shaped Long harrow, which are also a Ion.- headed race, very superior 

 in form to the two preceding races, and differing hut little from the 

 present races. The thigh and arm bones represent a race of no great 

 stature. 



The average Length of the trunk of the human body being about 

 2ft. 5in., a thigh bone measuring 18in., and the bones of the leg and 

 foot being equal to that of the thi^h in length, would give the height to 

 he about -">ft. oin., without estimating the soft parts. Upon this scale 

 I have been in the habit of calculating the stature from the length of 

 the thigh hones. The structure of these barrows and the character of 

 the skulls represent a people far removed above savages. 



Tic skulls of the round earth tumuli of Wilts, as shown to me by the 

 late Dr. Thurnam, differed greatly from the skulls of the round tumuli 

 • : Glou '- i hire and the Long heart-shaped barrows, being short- 

 headed skulls. In combination with the burials of this race you find, 

 in that district, bronze, and the fact that cremation was then generally 

 adopted. 



To the two first races an unknown antiquity must be given, being 

 in the state of savages, from the long barrows to the Roman period, 

 two thousand years maj be stated as a fair estimate, calculated upon 

 the facts m Scripture and most ancient writers. 



< ) N A N EST-BUILDIN G P I S H . 

 THE STICKLEBACK (GASTfSROSTEUS.) 



BY sii.vams WELKINS. 



That a fish could build a nesl has been \<-r\ much doubted, and 

 even dow when believed the fact is supposed to lie very rare. In 

 truth it is common enough, and as it can he made familiar, SO to say, 

 or own doors. | have (thought the subject would not be out of 

 place in a magazine published in Birmingham. The strange part is, 

 that the entire work of preparing the nest, hatching out, fostering and 



rearing the young, is done b\ the uau , 



