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long skulls, too, but had a peculiarly flattened shape 

 and a retreating forehead. The bony ridges over the 

 eyes, corresponding to the eyebrows, were enormous, and 

 projected forwards like the vizor of a cap (Figs. 65, 76, 

 and 77). There are but few specimens to guide our con- 

 clusions, but they show that though of short stature (some 

 not more than 5 ft. 4 in.), these people were very 

 muscular. The top of a skull from the cave in the 



FlG. 77. The Gibraltar skull from a cave in Gibraltar, now preserved in the 

 Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. It is of the Neander 

 race. Compare the dotted lines and lettering with those of Fig. 65, and 

 the explanation there given. The drawing is one-third (linear) of the 

 natural size. 



Neander Valley, known as the Neanderthal skull, two 

 imperfect skulls from the cave of Spy, in Belgium, an im- 

 perfect skull from Brunn, in Moravia, and other fragments 

 from Krapina, in Croatia, and, lastly, one from a cave 

 in Gibraltar, are the best known. Others, including 

 fragments of several skeletons less fully described, which 

 have been found at Predmort, in Moravia, probably 

 belong to this race. But the newly obtained skull and 

 bones from the centre of France (Chapelle-aux-Saints) 



