THE CRANIA OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS. 745 
lectual and moral qualities of the Mexicans and Peruvians are left 
X! free to act, not being so subordinate to the propensities and 
violent passions. * ; 
Below, I give the contours of the most anomalous skulls referred 
to in this paper, reduced to a uniform scale : 
Fig. 150. 
Comparative size of different skulls. 
Contour of European Skull. 
“u «that from Stimpson’s Mound No. 1 
“ that from the Neanderthal Skull. 
“ {hat from the Dunleith Mound, No.9. 
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The glabella. 
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So great is the range of variation in the crania of the living 
tribes of men that it is unsafe to pronounce upon their average 
city except from an examination of a large collection. Thus 
' but few authentic mound-builders’ skulls have been exhumed, 
and they indicate that that race must be ranked intellectually below 
owest types of Australia and Caledonia. 
ving out the Engis skull which shows à good degree of intel- 
ality, it may be said that the earliest types of man are inferior, 
ndicated by the Neanderthal skull, as well as by those recov- 
from the Danish and British tumuli, to say. nothing of the 
> human jaw found by Dupont in Belgium, which approaches 
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