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an extent, that a deformity remains throughout life, 

 and the frontal region instead of rising boldly up above 

 the orbits appears as if cut away, and as if a long 

 but slightly inclined plane were left rising gradually from 

 the orbit to the middle of the vertex of the skull. The 

 resulting shape is so peculiar, and the facial angle thus 

 produced so small and brute-like that there is no wonder 

 that it should at one time have been regarded as typify- 

 ing a peculiar race of man. The process, however, 

 has been now frequently observed and recorded by com- 

 petent travellers, and it has been shown that in different 

 tribes various kinds of compression are practised, with 

 the result of procuring curiously unsymrnetrical crania. 

 The accompanying figure (Fig. n) is a reduced outline 

 from an engraving of such a skull p IG x r * 



from Titicaca in Peru, in Dr. 

 Pochard's l Natural History of 

 Man,' and the author quotes the 

 opinion of Dr. Scouler as to the 

 manner in which the compression 

 is effected. He says, " The pro- 

 cess is slow and gentle, so that the child does not appear 

 to suffer in any way from so unnatural a process, nor 

 do the intellectual qualities of the individual appear 

 to be in any degree affected by it ; on the contrary, a 

 * Compressed cranium of a native of Titicaca. 



