270 Professor Daniel Wilson on the 
after being depressed and flattened, have at length partially 
yielded at the squamous suture. The head appears to have 
lain on the left side, and to have been subjected to slow con- 
tinuous pressure, which modified the contour of the lower side 
before the bones gave way at the suture. The measurements 
of this skull are :— 
Longitudinal diameter, . : : 7.40 
Parietal diameter, : : } ; 4.95 
Frontal diameter, : : : 4.10 
Vertical diameter, : : q : 5.35 
Intermastoid arch, . ; : ~ “L380 
Occipito-frontal arch, . : : . 14.00 
Horizontal cireumference, . ; . 20.00 
In an interesting paper on “ Aboriginal Antiquities recently 
discovered in the Island of Montreal,” published by Dr 
Dawson in the “ Canadian Naturalist,” he has given a de- 
scription of one female and two male skulls, found along with 
many human bones, at the base of the Montreal Mountain, 
on a site which he identifies, with much probability, as that of 
the ancient Hochelaga, an Indian village visited by Cartier 
in 1535, and which he assigns on less satisfactory evidence 
to an Algonquin tribe. Since the publication of that paper, 
my attention has been directed by Dr Dawson to two other 
skulls, a male and female, discovered on the same spot, both 
of which are now in the Museum of M‘Gill College, Montreal. 
One of these furnishes a still more striking example of a 
cranium, greatly altered from its original shape subsequent 
to interment. It is the skull of a man about forty years of 
age, approximating to the common proportions of the Iroquois 
and Algonquin cranium, but with very marked lateral dis- 
tortion, accompanied with flattening on the left and bulging | 
out on the right side. There is also an abnormal configura- 
tion of the occiput, suggestive at first sight of the effects pro- 
duced by the familiar native process of artificial malformation. 
This tends to add, in no slight degree, to the interest which 
attaches to the investigation of such illustrations of abnormal 
craniology, as the occurrence of well-established examples of 
posthumous deformation among crania, purposely modified by 
artificial means, exhibits in a striking manner the peculiar 
