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controversy. Each may adopt the hypothesis which seems to 
him most probable: for my own part, I hold it to be demon- 
strated that this cranium has belonged to a person of limited 
intellectual faculties, and we conclude thence that it be- 
longed to a man of a low degree of civilization : a deduction 
which is borne out by contrasting the capacity of the frontal 
with that of the occipital region. 
Another cranium of a young individual was discovered in 
the floor of the cavern beside the tooth of an elephant; the 
skull was entire when found, but the moment it was lifted 
it fell into pieces, which I have not, as yet, been able to put 
together again. But I have represented the bones of the 
upper jaw, Plate I, fig. 5. The state of the alveoli and the 
teeth, shows that the molars had not yet pierced the gum. 
Detached milk molars and some fragments of a human skull, 
proceed from this same place. The figure 3, represents a 
human superior incisor tooth, the size of which is truly 
remarkable.* 
Figure 4 is a fragment of a superior maxillary bone, the 
molar teeth of which are worn down to the roots. 
I possess two vertebre, a first and last dorsal. 
A clavicle of the left side (see Plate III, fig. 1) ; although 
it belonged to a young individual, this bone shows that he 
must have been of great stature. 
Two fragments of the radius, badly preserved, do not in- 
dicate that the height of the man, to whom they belonged, 
exceeded five feet and a half. 
As to the remains of the upper extremities, those which 
are in my possession, consist merely of a fragment of an 
ulna and of a radius (Plate III, fig. 5 and 6). 
Figure 2, Plate IV., represents a metacarpal bone, con- 
* Ina subsequent passage, Schmerling remarks upon the occurrence of an 
incisor tooth ‘ of enormous size’ from the caverns of Engihoul. The tooth 
figured is somewhat long, but its dimensions do not appear to me to be other- 
wise remarkable. 
+ The figure of this clavicle measures 5 inches from end to end in a straight 
line—so that the bone is rather a small than a large one. 
