a m D M i s s w a w i B i B s r y a s a i i i î i
Frontal diameter,
Vertical diameter, .
Inter-mastoid arch, .
Inter-mastoid line, .
Occipito-frontal arch,
Horizontal periphery,
Internal capacity, .
Capacity of the anterior chamber,
Capacity of the posterior chamber,
Capacity of the coronal region,
Facial'angle, . . . .
4.3 inches.
5.5 inches.
14.5 inches.
4.1 inches.
14. inches.
19.3 inches.
81. cubic inches.
35.25 cubic inches.
45.75 cubic inches.
18. cubic inches.
76 degrees.
PLATE LXIII.
SKULL FROM A CAVE NEAR STEUBENVILLE, OHIO.
In the month of May 1835, a cavern cemetery was discovered on the hank
of the Ohio river, opposite to Steubenville. The cemetery is a fissure formed by
a huge mass of rock which has fallen from the side of a hill, and lodged upon
other rocks so as to leave an intervening space, of which the circumference is
thirty or forty feet, and the entrance two feet and a half in diameter. Judge
Tappan, of Steubenville, informs me in a note, that “ the hones appear to have
been deposited at different periods of time, those on top being alone in good
preservation. They were of all ages, and thrown in indiscriminately after the
removal of the flesh; for it is well known that some tribes were accustomed to
gather, at times, all the hones of their deceased relatives, and place them in a
common receptacle.” These heads are thoroughly characteristic of the race to
which they pertain. They hear no evidences of great age, and no doubt belonged