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sagittal region is but very slightly elevated. The bregma-lambda 
arc measures 11.8 cm. (33.8 per cent of the are from nasion to 
opisthion). There is only one parietal foramen (right), of moderate 
size. ‘Temporal ridges were not high in position and are barely per- 
ceptible. 
The occipital region is quite full, not protruding; the right side is 
very little more prominent than the left. Occipital ridges and 
depressions are very faint. The temporal regions show moderate 
bulging. The squame are low. The zygome are quite slender. 
Pterions are of H form, rather narrow. 
The sutures show as yet no traces of ossification. Their serration 
is superior to that in any of the Lenape skulls. A distinct serration 
is seen in the posterior third of the temporo-parietal sutures, a condi- 
tion which is uncommon. There are no Wormian bones. 
The base of the skull is rather flat. The foramen magnum is 
quite large, measuring 3.8 em. in its antero-posterior and about 2.9 
cm. in its maximum lateral diameter. The plane of the opening, if 
extended forward, would pass only about 1. cm. beneath the nasion. 
The processes are low, the foramina of moderate size except the fo- 
ramina ovale, which are smaller than the average in female crania. 
The styloids are broken; they were, particularly the left, very slen- 
der. The glenoid fosse are of fair depth, the right being slightly 
more spacious than the left. 
The ventral surface of the skull shows but few and shallow impres- 
sions of the convolutions; it is scaling off similarly to the outer sur- 
face. Thickness of the left parietal 3 to 4mm. 
The differences between this specimen and the various Lenape and 
eastern crania, as shown by the inspection, are even more plainly 
indicated by the principal measurements and indices (see tables, 
page 41). The most characteristic features of the specimen are its 
considerable breadth coupled with extreme narrowness of the face; its 
extremely small height, which is noticeable even if we compare the 
auriculo-bregmatic instead of the basi-bregmatic heights, and which 
gives rise to very low height-length and height-breadth indices, and 
the megaseme charaeter of its orbits. Differences of such nature and 
so great in number are entirely beyond the scope of individual varia- 
tion. When found in a normal skull, as this is, they can represent 
only racial characters: In this case they effectually differentiate 
the Burlington County cranium from all those crania recognized as 
Indian. 
The Riverview Cemetery cranium (no. 44280, Peabody Museum) 
is that of a male about fifty years of age. It is somewhat damaged, 
but enough of the face as well as of the vault is preserved for almost 
all of the more important measurements. (Plate 1v.) The skull 
