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and affording evidence of immense muscular develop- 

 ment. 



The race of Truchere is represented by only a 

 single skull ; but Quatrefages vouches for it as be- 

 longing to the age of the mammoth. It is a well- 

 formed brachycephalic cranium of unusually great 

 internal capacity, and would be regarded anywhere 

 as indicating a race of high and refined cerebral 

 endowment. If really of the mammoth age, it may 

 have belonged to a straggler or captive from a higher 

 and more cultured tribe, introduced accidentally into 

 a sepulchre of the Cro-magnon period. It connects 

 itself with the speculation in the preceding pages 

 as to the existence of such a race. This skull 

 resembles, as we should expect, the type of the 

 neanthropic men who spread over the earth at the 

 beginning of that later age. 



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