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CRANIA AMERICANA, 



head I have examined. I received it from Dr. Satterlee, to whom I am much 

 indebted for the practical interest he has shown in this work. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



Longitudinal diameter. 

 Parietal diameter. 

 Frontal diameter. 

 Vertical diameter, 

 Inter-mastoid arch, 

 Inter-mastoid line, 

 Occipito-frontal arch. 

 Horizontal periphery. 

 Internal capacity, . 

 Capacity of the anterior chamber. 

 Capacity of the posterior chamber. 

 Capacity of the coronal region, 

 Facial angle, . . . 



6.8 inches. 



5.6 inches. 



4,'2 inches. 



5.5 inches. 

 14.7 inches. 



4.1 inches. 

 14.1 inches. 

 19.9 inches. 

 86.5 cubic inches. 

 36.5 cubic inches. 

 50. cubic inches. 

 15.5 cubic inches. 



79 degrees. 



THE MIAMIS. 



The territory claimed by the Miamis and Piankeshaws (two tribes speaking 

 one language) may be generally stated as having been bounded eastwardly by the 

 Maumee river of Lake Erie, and to have included all the country drained by the 

 Wabash. The Piankeshaws occupied the portion bordering on the Ohio. On 

 the east they bordered on the Illinois ; the boundary line being the dividing ridge 

 which separates the waters emptying into the Sabine creek, and the Kaskaskia 

 river, from those which fall into the Wabash.* 



In physical character the Miamis do not differ from the other western tribes 

 of the great Algonquin-Lenape stock. Their fine athletic forms, aquiline noses, 

 and strongly marked angular faces, are noticed by all travellers. In intellectual 



* GallatiNj Archteolog. Arner. II, p. 63. 



