Morton’s Crania Americana. 365 
The extinct race in Peru, was succeeded by the “ Inca, OR 
Movern Peruvians.” Thisrace dates its possession of Peru from 
about the eleventh century of our era; and as this period corres- 
ponds with the epoch of the migration from Mexico of the Toltecas, 
the most civilized nation of ancient Mexico, Dr. Morton concurs in 
the opinion expressed by other authors, that the modern Peruvi- 
ans were of a common origin with the ancient Mexicans. “The 
modern Peruvians,” says he, “ differ little in person from the In- 
dians around them, being of the middling stature, well limbed, 
and with small feet and hands.- Their faces are round, their eyes 
small, black, and rather distant from each other; their noses are 
small, the mouth somewhat large, and the teeth refnarkks ably fine. 
Their complexion isa dark brown, and their hair long, black, and 
rather coarse.” p, 115. The civilization and comparative refinie- 
ment of the Incas was blended with some remains of the ferocity 
of the savage. ‘Matrimonial engagements were entered into 
With very little ceremony or forethought, and they were as 
readily set aside at the option of the parties. Polygamy 
lawful, but not prevalent.” Among the people, incontinence, 
sensuality, and child-murder were common. Their dict was 
chiefly vegetables. The people were indolent, filthy and neg- 
ligent in their persons. The hair of their mummies, in many 
instances, is charged with desiccated vermin. Their religious 
system was marked by great simplicity, and was divested of 
those bloody rites which were common with the Aztecs of 
deficient; his organs of language and form, said Mr. C., were large. He had 
soaty the English language for two years, wad spoke it ‘to well. Mr. C. 
added, that in conversation he was intelligent, ready, and fluent, o ij 
that fe within the scope of the faculties of observation, ‘situated in 4 ges 
all subjec 
with the development of his ee Babs ore thts may esis because it is ob- 
vious, that if different parts of the b it is indispensa- 
that observations on the manifestati f the mental powers should be equally 
Minute and discriminative with ‘thease on the development of particular portions of 
thecranium. Mr.C. added, that the only way to grein whether the brain was 
merely displaced by compressioit, or otherwise altered, was by careful examination 
after death; and that he had recommended to Mr. “ad to call the attention of any 
Medical men who might visit these Indians, to this subject. We observed the death 
of one of these flat-headed Indians mentioned as having occurred in New York. 
Did any of the phrenologists or anti-phrenologists examine the brain? It was.an 
excellent opportunity for Dr. Rees. 
