THE FEONT VIEW, OE PEICHAED'S METHOD. 585 



Another most remarkable character, in respect to which those anatomists 

 have been greatly deceived who compared only young troglodytes with 

 man, is the great occipital foramen, a feature most important as to the 

 general character of structure and to the habits of the whole being. 

 This foramen, in the human head, is very near the middle of the basis 

 of the skull, or, rather, it is situated immediately behind the middle 

 transverse diameter, while in the adult chimpanzee it is placed in the 

 middle of the posterior third of the basis cranii. A third characteristic 

 in the ape is the greater size and development of the bony palate, in con- 

 sequence of which the teeth are much larger and more spread, and want 

 that continuity which is, generally speaking, a characteristic of man; and 

 intervals between the laniary, cutting, and bicuspid teeth admit, as in 

 the lower tribes of animals, the apices of teeth belonging to the opposite 

 jaws. Fourthly, the basis of the skull is flat, owing to the want of that 

 'downward development of the brain, and of the bony case connected with 

 the greater dimension which the cerebral organ acquires in the human 

 being compared with the lower tribes." 

 4. The front view, or Prichard's method. 



"Neither the facial angle of Camper, nor the method of viewing the 

 skull proposed by Blumenbach, affords a satisfactory display T^efrontview 

 of the characteristics of the pyramidal or lozenge-faced skull." or Prichard's 

 . 292, which is the drawing of the skull of an method ' 

 Fig, 292. Esquimaux, the lines drawn from the 



zygomatic arch, touching the temples, 

 meeting over the forehead, form with 

 the basis a triangular figure. * These 

 two lines in well -formed European 

 heads are parallel, the forehead being 

 very much broader than in the heads 

 of Esquimaux, and other races whose 

 skulls belong to the same great division 

 of human crania, among whom are the 

 Mongolians, and other nomadic nations 

 of Northern Asia. The most striking 

 characteristic of these skulls is the great 

 Esquimaux. lateral or outward projection of the zyg- 



omatic arch. The cheek-bones, rising from under the middle of the or- 

 bit, do not project forward and downward under the eyes, as in the prog- 

 nathous skull of the negro, but take a direction laterally or outward, and 

 turn backward to meet a corresponding projection of the process of the 

 temporal bone, and form with it a large, rounded sweep or segment of a 

 circle. The orbits are large and deep. The upper part of the face being 

 remarkably plane or flat, the nose flat, and the nasal bones, as well as the 



