OF PECULIAR CRANIAL FORMS. 415 
and to have been subjected to slow continuous pressure which modified 
the contour of the lower side before the bones gave way at the suture. 
The measurements of this skull are: 
Longitudinal ‘diameter 23s 0 Se A 40 
Parietal’ diametér ..).e'e6. 2 ee) a 86 
Frontal dvamieter 9!) 4.00 PORE. SOO ger ai) 
Wertical diameter. 2°2 (4) SOA iia SOS Ba 
imtermastord arch’. 00.) Ve ee en OSES 0) 
Occipito-frontal arch...... ie ee chee eed, Ee, BOG 
Horizontal circumference .............. 20. 00 
In an interesting paper on “ Aboriginal Antiquities recently disco- 
vered in the Island of Montreal,’ published by Dr. Dawson in the 
“‘ Canadian Naturalist,” he has given a description of one female and 
two male skulls, found along with many human bones, at the base of 
the Montreal Mountain, on a site which he identifies with much proba- 
bility, as that of the ancient Hochelaga, an Indian Village visited by 
Cartier in 1535; and which he assigns on less satisfactory evidence 
to an Algonquin tribe. Since the publication of that paper, my atten- 
tion has been directed by Dr. Dawson to two other skulls, a male and 
female, discovered on the same spot, both of which are now in the 
Museum of McGill College, Montreal. One of these furnishes a still 
more striking example of a cranium greatly altered from its original 
shape subsequent to interment. It is the skull of a man about forty 
years of age, approximating to the common proportions of the Iro- 
quois and Algonquin cranium, but with very marked lateral distortion, 
accompanied with flattening on the left, and bulging out on the right 
side. There is also an abnormal configuration of the occiput, suggestive 
at first sight, of the effects produced by the familiar native process of 
artificial malformation. This tends to add, in no slight degree, to the 
interest which attaches to the investigation of such illustrations of 
abnormal craniology; as the occurrence of well established examples of 
posthumous deformation among crania purposely modified by artificial 
means exhibits in a striking manner the peculiar difficulties which 
complicate the investigations of the naturalist when dealing with man. 
The evidence which places beyond doubt the posthumous origin of the 
distortion in this Hochelaga skull is of the same nature as that which 
has already been accepted in relation to an example recovered from an 
Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Stone, in Buckinghamshire. The forehead is 
