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broau across the eyes and cheeks ; the interval between th.e 

 orbits wide ; those cavities are large, shallow, and directi-'d 

 upwards. The facial angle is 66°. The distance from the 

 posterior edge of the vonaer to the corresponding vertical 

 point of the head is only 2j- inches : the transverse measure- 

 ment at the same point, 6 inches ; across the coronal su- 

 ture, 6J inches. The distance from the alveolar edge of the 

 superior maxilla to the back of the occiput is 8 inches; from 

 the occiput to the posterior edge of the foramen magnum, 

 Si ; to the anterior, 4|. When the skull is supported on 

 the condyles, the back part greatly preponderates. 



This skull, like that which Dr. Leach possesses, came 

 from the island of St. Vincent's. It was presented to Mr. 

 Cline by a surgeon of Tobago, who stated that the indivi- 

 dual had been chief of the Red Caribs in St. Vincent's ; that 

 he used to come to Tobago on the commercial and other 

 business of his tribe ; that he was well known there, and 

 regarded as an intelligent, well-informed, and prudent cha- 

 racter *. 



A more detailed knowledge of the two Carib men, whose 

 skulls are above described, would be highly interesting in 

 physiology. 



A head precisely similar to this of Mr. Cline has been 

 figured by Hanauld, in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy 

 of Sciences f. 



The inferences, to which these and similar specimens 

 lead, are comipletely supported and confirmed by the una- 

 nimous testimonies of the most judicious and respectable 

 travellers ; which cannot be set aside without a degree of 

 scepticism that would equally prevent us from believing 

 all that is stated on such authority. 



Labat relates, " that the Caribs are all well made and 

 proportioned ; their features are sufficiently agreeable, ex- 

 cepting the forehead, which appears rather extraordinary, 



* Besides the skull which is figured by Mr. Arthaud in the Journal de 

 Physique, t. 34, he mentions another, in which ther ■ was a large depression 

 in the centre of the os frontis ; p. 2b3. + 1700, p. 371. tab. 16. fig. 1. 



