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thfe whole head. Now if the bones of the face 

 and neck were taken quite away, and nothing 

 left but the hollow brain-case, (cranium,) the 

 appearance would be very different. Here is 

 a front view of a skull from which the bones 

 below have been thus removed. 



You see, in front, the top of the cavity or 

 socket for each of the two eyes ; and on one 

 side, the place where the ear should be in the 

 living person. This brain-case is composed of 

 eight bones, most of which are closely united 

 by a rough edge, like that of a saw, the notches 

 of which shut into each other as exactly as saw 

 teeth would, and form what a tailor would call 

 seams. These seams are by anatomists called 

 sutures. 



One of the most important bones of the 

 skull, or brain-pan, is that which stretches 



