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02 Mr. Home’s Account of 
and his European fervant, the religious prejudices of the 
parents not allowing them to difpenfe with its being interred. 
My friend, Captain Buchanan, late Commander of the 
Ranger Packet,, in the fervice of the honourable the haft India 
Company, when at Bengal reftded a few days in Mr. Dent s 
houfe. • He was much ft ruck with the uncommon appearance 
of the double Ikull, and expreffed a wifti that he might be 
allowed to bring it to Europe, and prefent it to me ; know- 
, i„g, from the intereft: I have always taken m thole purfuits 
- which have fo long and fo deeply engaged your attention, it 
would be a moft acceptable prefent. His requeft was no fooner 
, communicated to Mr. Dent, than it was complied with ; that 
gentleman having too much liberality to hefitate a moment in 
; fending fo rare a curiofity to Europe. I fhould do both thcle 
gentlemen injuftice, were I not to attribute their readinefs upon 
, the prefent occafion to oblige me, in a great meaiure to their 
knowing that the double ikull would be depofited in your col- 
lection, which muft now be confidered more as a national and 
public repolitory than a private cabinet. 
The two Ikulls which compofe’ this monftrous head appeal 
, to be nearly of the fame fize, and equally complete in their 
ofliiication, except a fmall fpace at the upper edge of the offa 
frontis of the fuperior Ikull, fimilar to a fontinelle. The 
mode in which the two are united is curious, as no portion of 
•bone is either added or diminilhed for that purpofe; but the 
frontal and parietal bones of each Ikull, inftead of being bent 
Inwards, fo as to* form the top of the head, are continued on; 
and, from the oblique pofition of the two heads, the bones of 
the one pafs a little way into the natural futures of the other, 
• forming a zig-zag line, or circular future uniting them toge- 
ther. 
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