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skulls, seem to me to prohibit any cautious reasoner 

 from affirming the latter to have necessarily been of 

 distinct races." My own experience in American 

 skulls, and the still larger experience of Dr. Wilson, 

 fully confirm the wisdom of this caution. The figures 

 given in this chapter will show this in the case of two 



Fig. 33. OUTLINES OF THEEE PBE-HISTOBIC EUROPEAN SKULLS COMPARED 

 WITH OWE FROM HocHELAGA. Outer outline, Cro-magnon skull; second out- 

 line, Engis skull; third outline (dotted), Neanderthal skull; inner figure, 

 Hochelagan skull on a smaller scale. 



skulls, both from the ancient cemetery of Hochelaga. 

 He adds : " Finally, the comparatively large cranial 

 capacity of the Neanderthal skull, overlaid though it 

 may be by pithecoid bony walls, and the completely 



