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eral line of the skull; the orbits are quadrangular; the forehead 
= is low; the cheek bones high; and the jaws prognathous. His 
- character, since first known to the white man, has been signalized 
by treachery and cruelty. He repels all efforts to raise him from 
his degraded position ; and whilst he has not the moral nature to 
adopt the virtues of civilization, his brutal instincts lead him to 
: welcome its vices. He was never known voluntarily to engage 
= inan enterprise requiring methodical labor; he dwells in tempo- 
rary and movable habitations ; he follows the game in their migra- 
tions ; he imposes the drudgery of life upon his- squaw ; he takes 
no heed for the future. To suppose that such a race threw up the 
long lines of circumvallations and the symmetrical mounds which 
crown so many of our river-terraces is as preposterous almost, as 
_ to suppose that they built the pyramids of Egypt. 
Inthe results of archeological explorations, at other points on 
this hemisphere, we have evidences of the existence of races whose 
. skulls had many of the distinctive features which appertain to 
those of the mound-builder. 
Dr. Lund, a distinguished Swedish natur alist, many years ago in 
_ the bone caves of Minas Gordas, Brazil, found the remains of men 
associated with those of extinct quadrupeds, under circumstances 
-= which led him to believe that the whole were contemporaneous. 
In his communications to the Geographical and Historical Society 
of Brazil, an abstract of which was forwarded to Dr. Morton by 
Lieutenant Pienin, he says: 
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"We “shied ‘that the human figures found sculptured on the 
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