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meuts of very coarse pottery, much charcoal, and broken pieces of the boues of 
various animals — a proof that man had inhabited that precise spot. 
A. Central axis of the cone, transversely bisected by the railway. It is here that the 
torrent flowed iu ordinary times, before the dykes had been constructed. 
C C. Surface of the cone, when the ton-ent was commenced to be dyked. This line is, 
to a certain extent, ideal ; all the others are real, and have been actually observed 
as they are represented in the section. 
M N. The ii-on road. 
V. Bridge acting as aqueduct to the torrent which crosses the railway. 
O P N. In this space exclusively all those distances are included which have sei^ved to 
establish chronological calculations. These distances, often repeated, are capable 
of being taken here very exactly ; they can be considered as exact almost to half 
an inch. 
The section has been interrupted at M, because it became indistinct here. Its 
southern extremity was complete in every relation. 
Kjdklcenmdddings {Denmarh). — Numerous human skeletons from 
the ancient deposits of Denmark, in which the remains of extinct ani- 
mals, with one exception {Bos primigenius) have not been found, have 
been afforded to us. The skulls are brachy cephalic, and possess 
well-defined supraorbital ridges. M. Morlot says " that their front 
teeth did not overlap as ours do, but met one another, as those of 
the Greenlanders of the present day. This evidently indicates a 
peculiar manner of eating." The value of this assumption could only 
be estimated by the illustration of a drawing, showing in what way 
such close juxtaposition of the incisor teeth was effected. This evi- 
dence, however, is not given to us, and those who are acquainted 
with the range of dental variation in man, however they might con- 
sider a conformation of this sort indicative of a peculiar description 
of food, will hardly affirm that the builders of the tumuli had " a 
peculiar manner of eating." M. Morlot, although he quotes the 
Greenlanders, Egyptians, and other nations as exhibiting the same 
dental peculiarity, the incisors being worn away so as functionally to 
resemble molars, is evidently not aware of the fact that this confor- 
mation has been observed even amongst British sailors, and that it is 
due solely to the triturating action of the hard substances used by 
them as food. In the sepulchral edifices of the early Danes, carefully 
constructed of large hewn stones, M. Morlot has discovered numerous 
crania, of which, he says, the type can be established. " It is a small 
head, remarkably rounded in every way, but with a rather large facial 
angle, and a forehead which does not bear the mark of a slightly- 
developed intelligence. This type reminds one of that of the Lap- 
lander, but it cannot be precisely affirmed to be identical with it." 
One from Sanderumgaard, of the Iron period, in the island of Tyen, 
is dolichocephalic, with a slightly retrocedent frontal. Practical 
cranioscopists are aware that the range of variation in the skulls of 
the Indo-European races is such as to exhibit many crania of these 
two types amongst the existing races of Europe and Asia. Palaeon- 
tologists are under a lasting debt of obligation to M. Morlot, who 
has, by his researches on the later geological strata of Switzerland, 
furnished us with an ahnost inexhaustible mine of information on the 
contemporaneity of man with the extinct animals at both the Kjok- 
