DESCRIPTIONS OP OUANIA.
The facial aspect of this skull, wliicli is not thick, with features unusually fine and comely,
still retains the characters of the ancient British race. The alveoli and teeth are upright; the
inferior maxiUa gracefully turned, with a well-expressed chin; the cheeks not much pitted; the
malar bones moderately expanded; the small and narrow nasal bones descend at a rather abrupt
angle, and are extended over a somewhat narrow olfactory aperture; the oral cavity is tolerably
capacious, and has a well-arched palate; the orbits are oval, and not large; the zygomatic arches
are of moderate dimensions; the superciliary ridge is decidedly expressed, yet not at all in an
exaggerated degree; above it ascends a broad, squarish, but not high forehead, with marked
frontal tuberosities. The calvarium is remarkable for its size, its smoothness, and for being
well filled out in aU dii-ections. Except a little fiihiess in the supraoccipital region, there
is scarcely a prominence upon it. There is nothing needing comment in the base of the calvarium,
unless it be that it is weU fiUed out about and behind the foramen magnum, which itself,
like the mastoid processes, is of smaU dimensions. The whole calvarium is of platycephalic
form, and very closely approaches the brachycephaKc category.
MEASUREMENTS.
Occipital Region.—Length . . 5-0 inches.
Breadth . . 4-5 „,
Height . . 4-1 „
Intermastoid arch 15-4
Internal capacity 90 ounces.
Eace.—Length 4-4 inches.
Breadth 5-4
Eemur.—Length 18-7
Horizontal circumference . . . 21-8 inches,
Longitudinal diameter . . • 7-4 „
Frontal Region.—Length • 5-8 „
Breadth . • 5-1 „
Height . 5-0 „
Parietal Region.—Length • „
Breadth . . 5-3 „
Height • 4-9 „
Taken upon the whole, it may be safely declared that there is not a finer skull of the Ancient
British series described in this work. Erom his cranial development alone, were there not the
accessory circumstances of the unusual state of preservation of the teeth and of the two calvaria
of the attendant women, it would not have been diflcult to descry the commanding powers of
this man, necessarily placing him in a principal position in his tribe. Still less may we hesitate
to declare him to have been of noble stature, of comely and graceful form. His whole
organization and features separate him widely from every savage race, and have brought him
into an approximation to the superior races, races of the highest destinies *.
(J. B. D.)
* It is by the kindness of Mrs. Bateman that we have been worl;. For some of the illustrations we are alike indebted to
enabled to ofPer this fine skull as the concluding Plate of our Mr. LI. Jcwitt F S A
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