84 BELIQULE AQUTTANIC^E. 



Lastly, of other metatarsals, a third, two fourth, and one fifth are all that remains of the bones of the 

 foot. The excess in their length is 11, 9, and 3 millims. The last metatarsal is deformed by the rugged 

 state of its inferior articular extremity and by the swelling of its pyramidal process. 



Having arrived at this stage of the inquiry respecting the bones of the lower extremities, I proceed to 

 state the two orders of resulting facts. In the first place, we have determined that these bones are massive 

 and that the foot was flat and long, compared with the length of the long bones ; and this is itself in every 

 case considerable. Then it follows from the form of the femurs, tibias, and fibula, and even from the 

 condition of the metatarsals, that nearly every individual had been more or less subject to rickets, at least 

 in a small degree*. 



3. UPPER EXTREMITIES. 



a. Shoulder-blade and Clavicle. 



Of the shoulder-blade there remains only one mutilated anterior extremity, with deep muscular 

 impressions and a very flat glenoid cavity. The external edge is 16 millims. thick. 



A sternal end of a clavicle is also imperfect. Its breadth is 20, and its thickness 10 millims. It is 

 very smooth and flat ; and its curvature does not seem to be great. 



b. Hwnerus. [C. PLATE VI. fig. 1.] 



There are three complete specimens, well representing this bone. The longest belongs to the left side. 

 In comparison with its length and the breadth of its ends, it is the thinnest and straightest. Its shaft is 

 laterally compressed, instead of being rounded like the others. The triangular surface above the elbow 

 is also very much broadened by flatness. Lastly, the impress of the muscles is feeble. 



The second, also belonging to the left side, besides being shorter, is more massive, and more round in its 

 shaft. The bicipital groove is here longer and deeper. The imprint of the deltoid, the groove of torsion, &c. 

 are here so marked that, independently of the normal twist, the body of the bone appears to have been 

 subjected to a curvature. 



The third specimen belongs to the right side, and resembles the last described ; only the bicipital groove 

 has here rather less depth ; but it has greater breadth, and the imprint of the deltoid has not left so 

 prominent a ridge as in the last. 



Lastly, a fragment of a distal extremity corresponds with the last two specimens. 



[For the measurements of the Humeri, see Explanation of Plates, page 91.] 



* The tibias like sabre-blades (that is, laterally compressed, even much more than among these old people 

 of Perigord) have had their day of glory (ephemeral enough, to speak the truth) ; for some would herein 

 incontinently see a character of the race, and, what is more, some Simian feature. There is nothing, 

 however, in these adventurous hypotheses. Almost at the same time that Mr. Busk and the lamented 

 Falconer called public attention to similar tibias found in Caves of Gibraltar, M. Broca obtained a 

 considerable number in a megalithic monument (Chamant), belonging to the Period of Polished Stone. 

 They have also been found elsewhere in France. For my part, I have also met with such a one among 

 bones from Algeria, of recent date. On the other hand, the examination of a skeleton affected by 

 severe rickets satisfies me that this form of tibia belongs to this category of individuals; and this is 

 further confirmed, as regards these aborigines of Perigord, by the condition of other bones of the lower 

 extremities. 



