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present level of the sea, at Senneo, near the Land's End, Cornwall, and 

 of which Professor Busk remarks that it " bears some resemblance 

 to the Engis cranium of Dr. Schmerliug," the dolichocephalic cha- 



Fig. 6. — Human skull from Sennen, Cornwall (scale i linear). 



racter is strongly marked. The frontal region is retrocedent ; the 

 occiput shelving backwards. The alisphenoid and the parietal bones 

 join for a greater extent than in most Caucasian skulls. The supra- 

 orbital ridges are less prominent than in the Plan, more so than in 

 the Mewslade crania. The meatus audiforiiis externus is large ; the 

 zygomatic arch strong and powerful. 



Fig. 7. — Human skull from Montrose (scale \ linear). 



Montrose. — Eig. 7. — This, the most typical example of a British 

 brachycephalic skull, was found in a tumulus, supposed to belong 



