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of a cranium to the general form of the head to which it 

 belonged. 



" Nevertheless, in order to neglect no point respecting the 

 form of this fossil skull, we may observe that, from the first, 

 the elongated and narrow form of the forehead attracted 

 our attention. 



" In fact, the slight elevation of the frontal, its narrowness, 

 and the form of the orbit, approximate it more nearly to 

 the cranium of an Ethiopian than to that of an European : 

 the elongated form and the produced occiput are also 

 characters which we believe to be observable in our fossil 

 cranium ; but to remove all doubt upon that subject I have 

 caused the contours of the cranium of an European and of 

 an Ethiopian to be drawn and the foreheads represented. 

 Plate II., Figs. 1 and 2, and, in the same plate, Figs. 3 and 4, 

 will render the differences easily distinguishable ; and a 

 single glance at the figures will be more instructive than a 

 long and wearisome description. 



" At whatever conclusion we may arrive as to the origin of 

 the man from whence this fossil skull proceeded, we may 

 express an opinion without exposing ourselves to a fruitless 

 controversy. Each may adopt the hypothesis which seems 

 to him most probable : for my own part, I hold it to be 

 demonstrated that this cranium has belonged to a person of 

 limited intellectual faculties, and we conclude thence that 

 it belonged to a man of a low degree of civilization : a deduc- 

 tion which is borne out by contrasting the capacity of the 

 frontal with that of the occipital region. 



" Another cranium of a young individual was discovered 

 in the floor of the cavern beside the tooth of an elephant ; 

 the skull was entire when found, but the moment it was 

 lifted it fell into pieces, which I have not, as yet, been able 

 to put together again. But I have represented the bones 

 of the upper jaw, Plate I., Fig. 5. The state of the alveoli 

 and the teeth, shows that the molars had not yet pierced 

 the gum. Detached milk molars and some fragments of a 

 human skull proceed from this same place. The Figure 3 

 represents a human superior incisor tooth, the size of which 

 is truly remarkable.* 



" Figure 4 is a fragment of a superior maxillary bone, 



* In a subsequent passage, Schmerling remarks upon the occurrence 

 of an incisor tooth ' of enormous size ' from the caverns of Engihoul. 

 The tooth figured is somewhat long, but its dimensions do not appear 

 to me to be otherwise remarkable. 



