REMAINS OF ANCIENT WORKMANSHIP. 



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sion, almost always contain evidence of the deposit of one or more human bodies. 

 These are always very much decayed ; only one skull having been found sufficiently 

 entire to enable Dr. Hoy, with much skill and labor, to restore it sufficiently to make 

 out its general characteristics. A fortunate combination of circumstances had caused 

 this preservation. The skull and some other bones were enveloped in a peculiar 

 kind of clay, which seems to have possessed a preservative quality beyond that of 

 ordinary earth, of which most of the accumulation was composed ; and on the very 

 top of the mound was a large tree, which had shed off the rains for several centuries. 

 Many peculiarities of this cranium are pointed out by Dr. Hoy. (Chapter I, page 9.) 

 On Plate LIII, there is a drawing of the natural size; and figures 37 and 38 

 represent the top and back views of the same skull reduced to one quarter of the 

 natural size. 



loliowmg are its dimensions : 





Longitudinal diameter .... 



6.8 



Parietal diameter ..... 



5.3 



Occipito-frontal arch .... 



13.8 



Length of head and face .... 



8.2 



Zygomatic diameter .... 



4.9 



Facial angle ..... 



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To give the reader more particular information respecting the supposed charac- 

 teristics of this interesting relic of an extinct people, I have, with the assistance 

 of a phrenological friend, prepared the following "chart." For the localities of the 

 " organs," &c., reference was had to Spurzheim,^ whose works have become a portion 

 of the literature of the country, and are to be found in all important libraries. 

 Although the principles of this professed science may not be true in all their details, 

 yet its nomenclature affords the means of presenting the conformation of the skull 

 in a definite manner. The figure following the name of each organ indicates its 

 relative development; signifying deficiency, and 6 very full or unusual prominence. 



ATFECTIVE ORGANS. 



I. Peopensities. 

 Destriictiveness 

 Amativeness 

 Philoprogenitiveness 

 Adhesiveness 

 Inhabitiveness 

 Combativeness 

 Secretiveness 

 Acquisitiveness 

 Constructiveness 

 II. Sentiments. 



Cautiousness (very full) 

 Approbativeness 

 Self-esteem . 

 Benevolence . 



4-1- 



6 



6 



5 



5 



5 



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Phrenology, Boston, 1833. 



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