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DERIVED FROM ANATOMY, HISTORY, AND THE MONUMENTS. 99 
Plate II., Fig. 8. (Cat. 807.) A large, thin, oval cranium, with a broad, receding fore- 
head, tumid occiput, a long and very aquiline nose, and remarkably prominent face. 
The frontal suture remains entire. Probably a man of thirty years.—I. C. 88 cubic 
inches. F. A. 74°. Semztec form. 
Plate III., Fig. 2. (Cat. 809.) A female head, with a somewhat receding forehead 
and low coronal region.—I. C. 81 cubic inches. F. A. 78°. Egyptian form. 
Plate IIL., Fig. 1. (Cat. 811.) A small head, with a narrow frontal region, receding 
forehead, and broad parietal diameter. A female? of about twenty-five years.—I. C. 
73 cubic inches. F. A. 76°. Egyptian form. 
(Cat. 813.) Skull of a child of eight years, with a finely developed forehead, tumid 
occiput and full facial angle. Pelasgic form. 
C.—FROM THE FRONT OF THE NORTHERN BRICK PYRAMID OF DASHOUR. 
Three skulls exhumed by Mr. Perring from the above mentioned locality in the Mem- 
phite Necropolis. They were discovered in the month of August, 1839, in the process 
of trenching to find an entrance to the pyramid. The following extract from Col. Vyse’s 
admirable work embraces all the information we possess in relation to these remains, 
merely premising that none of the me«mmied heads alluded to has come into my pos- 
session. 
“At the depth of about four feet six inches, above fifty bodies were found, ten of which 
were mummies, embalmed and deposited in the-usual manner. The others were much 
decayed, and had been buried in their clothes, and in some instances were bound round 
with common cord and laid in wooden coffins, or among a few branches of date trees. 
Some of the clothes were woollen, others coarse linen, with a fringed border of bright 
scarlet worsted. The heads were covered with bright red network. Mr. Perring ima- 
gined that these bodies had belonged to a pastoral people, probably to Bedouins, and that 
they had been interred, together with the mummies, at a very early period, before the 
introduction of Christianity.” Vysr, Pyramids, III., p. 60. 
These crania, which are remarkably small, possess much of the Egyptian form, and 
are well represented in the following outlines. 
(Cat. 795.) An oval cranium with a receding forehead, full coronal region, strongly 
developed upper maxilla, and prominent face.—I. C. 75 cubic inches. F. A. 76°.— 
Egyptian blended with the Negrowd form ? 
- (Cat. 796.) A small oval head, low forehead, and salient and very aquiline nose. Fa- 
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