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and made drawings of several of both these forms of head, 
and the second mentioned appear to be incomplete attempts 
to rival the first by artificial means. Now, this occurs like- 
wise in the aquiline-featured bas-reliefs of Yucatan, and 
among some tribes of the north, tending to an unlikely con- 
jecture that men of a higher order of conformation should 
have endeavoured to distort themselves to the imitation of a 
more brutal race, and made that the type of its divinities and 
heroes. 
We stop here without adverting to the relative cubical 
capacity of the skulls, and have indulged so far in this some- 
what unphilosophical field of observations, only because they 
may perhaps tend to enlarge the inquiries of those who shall 
again embark in the same research, by pointing out objects 
and arguments which, albeit well known, we have never seen 
brought together in juxtaposition. They will be found to 
have reference to many points of the observations which 
the travels before us contain, relating to the native tribes of 
the Missouri and other parts of the United States; and al- 
though, among the alleged facts here produced, some may 
possibly be denied, or rest upon insufficient authority for im- 
plicit credence, there still remains such a mass of evidence 
to support our general inference, that we contend plural 
sources of the aboriginal population to be undeniable ; and, 
had it been possible to advert, in a notice like the present, to 
the innumerable coincidences of opinions and traditions be- 
tween the native tribes and those of very distinct and re- 
motely separated races in other parts of the world, the ulti- 
mate conclusion would have been greatly corroborated. 
We do not regret to have left ourselves so little space for 
reverting to the travels of the Prince, because the scientific 
questions they were chiefly intended to clear up do not well 
admit of extracts, and the occasional opinions on species an- 
nounced in the work, which may differ from those of British 
travellers in more northern regions, deserve that sober con- 
sideration and confidence which the well-known skill and im- 
partial temper of the illustrious German deserve ; particu- 
larly as on many points he could consult our old and valued 
friends, Say, Le Sueur, and Maclure, who were then resi- 
