to Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Moultrie, who has described 
this very interesting relic, makes the following observations :— 
“Compared with the cranium of a Peruvian presented to Prof. 
Holbrook by Dr. Morton, in the museum of the state of South 
Carolina, the craniological similarity manifested between them is 
too striking to permit us to question their national identity. 
There is in both the same coronal elevation, occipital com: 
sion, and lateral protuberance accompanied with frontal Copper 
sion, which mark the American variety in general.””* 
There i is additional proof af Ademtityy:m not only of original con- 
formation, but of of the form of the head, 
which I may be excused from reverting to in this place, inasmuch 
as the materials I shall use have but recently come to my hands. 
The first of these subjects is represented Fig. 2. 
by the subjoined wood-cut, (fig. 2.) It 
was politely sent me by Dr. John Hous- 
toun, an intelligent surgeon of the British 
Navy, with the following memorandum : 
“From an ancient town called Chiuhiu, 
or Atacama Baja, on the’ river Loa, and 
on the western edge of the desert of Ata- 
cama. The bodies are nearly all buried 
in the sitting posture, {the conventional 
usage of most of the American nations 
from Patagonia to Canada,] with the hands either placed on each 
side of she tenho — erie breast.’ ‘sd 
ig * Amer. Jour. of Science, one P- et 
ae dings f Phil yvort ii, eat If I mis- 
tekreseh is the first to b d thi de of int. our abo- 
riginal nations, a as a strong evidence og ihe unity of the American race. “Thus itis 
that notwithstanding the diversity of language, customs and intellectual character, 
we trace = usage throughout both Americas Shes as we have already stated, 
collatera! of the affiliation of all the American ge Rais 
cana, p- 246, and man Mr. Bradford i in bis schanlihe work, American Antiquitics, 
P the Chevalier D’ ‘Eichthal has also 
adduced this custom, in connexi ith fit in Polynesia, to prove an 
pea origin fora part at idee of the American race. See ‘Mémoires de la Société 
de Paris, Tome II, p- 236. Whence arose this conventional position 
seihe body in death? ‘This question has been often asked and variously answered. 
It is obviously an imitation of the attitude which the living Indian habitually as- 
sumes when sitting at perfect ease, and which has been naturally transferred to his 
lifeless remains asa fit emblem of repose. 
