SKULLS FROM CAVES IN OHIO. 



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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, .... 



4.3 inches. 



5.5 inches. 

 14.5 inches. 



4.1 inches. 

 1 4. inches. 

 1 9.3 inches. 

 81. cubic inches. 

 35.25 cubic inches. 

 45.75 cubic inches. 

 18. cubic inches. 

 76 degrees. 



PLATE LXIIL 



SKULL FROM A CAVE NEAR STEUBENVILLE, OHIO. 



In the month of May 1835, a cavern cemetery was discovered on the bank 

 of the Ohio river, opposite to Steubenville. The cemetery is a fissure formed by 

 a huge mass of rock which has fallen from the side of a hill, and lodged upon 

 other rocks so as to leave an intervening space, of which the circumference is 

 thirty or forty feet, and the entrance two feet and a half in diameter. Judge 

 Tappan, of Steubenville, informs me in a note, that "the bones appear to have 

 been deposited at different periods of time, those on top being alone in good 

 preservation. They were of all ages, and thrown in indiscriminately after the 

 removal of the flesh ; for it is well known that some tribes were accustomed to 

 gather, at times, all the bones of their deceased relatives, and place them in a 

 common receptacle." These heads are thoroughly characteristic of the race to 

 which they pertain. They bear no evidences of great age, and no doubt belonged 



