influences that blotch the c,'olcl-diggin,i,'s. Althoiioh the eyes of 

 ttio Australians are rarely if ever oblique, a face with a decided 

 Mongolian cast about the brow, cheek bones and no^e, is not 



There an; certain peculiarities about the average Australian 

 head which serve to mark it very distinctly. It, is of .a pyramidal 

 shape, the skull is abnormally thick, the cereljral capacitv is al)Out 

 the smallest of all races. N^iewed in profih^ rhe tip of t'he no^e is 

 the apex of an angle the sides of which recede uitli about ecpal 

 obliquity fron» a horizontal passing through tliat j)oint. The head 

 is well poised, commonly ii-iving abackward lean, and is supported 

 on a neck short and comparatively thick. 



In general appearance the average Australian is svinnietrically 

 proportioned. More bone and muscle would undoubtedly be an 



of ankles and wrists are sugge.stive of weakni-ss. I lis hands are 



an erect, free, graceful carnage. As he is so largely dependent 

 upon the^ exerci.se of liis .senses they are sin^culai'ly acute. His 



it IS therefore no wonder that his faculties of sense-perception 



For a people so low in the scale of civil 

 exhibit powers of mind anything but des] 

 keen ob.sei-vers, of cpiick understanding, 

 ■cunning, but as Tuight l>e expected neith 

 independent thinkers, in schools it has oi 

 aboriginal children would learn (luite' as 

 children of European parents. In fact, ti 



highest 'of all the stat 



Europeans the range 



aversion to application 

 progress of an aborii^ir 

 IS usually tlie absencf 



cannot help attending .school, niost natives wlio have l)een taken 

 in hand to be taught, liave at Ijest learnwl to read words of one 



