THE POTOW ATOMIES. 



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Inter-mas toid 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, .... 



15.3 inches. 

 4.7 inches. 

 14.2 inches. 

 20.9 inches. 

 91.5 cubic inches. 

 40. cubic inches. 

 51.5 cubic inches* 

 12.75 cubic inches. 

 82 degrees. 



THE POTOW ATOMIES. 



" The Potowatomies are for the most part well proportioned, about five feet 

 eight inches in height, possessed of much muscular strength in the arm, but rather 

 weak in the back, with a strong neck, and endowed with considerable agility. 

 Their voice is feeble and low, but excited, very shrill. Their teeth are sound 

 and clean, but not remarkable for regularity. Their complexion is very much 

 darkened by exposure to the sun and wind, while those parts which are kept 

 covered are observed to retain their native brightness. Their sight is quick and 

 penetrating, but blindness is frequent from the intense application of the eye in 

 still hunting, and from exposure to the alternate, and in some cases, united action 

 of the sun and snow ; doubtless also on account of the constant smoke in their 

 huts."* The same intelligent traveller adds, what has been already observed of 

 the Indians in general, that although their endurance of cold and hunger are very 

 extraordinary, they are absolute gluttons when freely supplied with food, and will 

 eat ten and twenty times in the day. The Potowatomies, though a brave nation, 

 are much more tractable in temper than some of the neighboring tribes; and 

 Charlevoix, after eulogising their fine exterior, declares that he received more 

 kindness from them, infidels as they were, than from the Christian Hurons.f 



Keating, Exped. I, p. 136. 

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t Voy. a PAmer. Let. XVII. 



