véro notum est barbaris istis parado-
xum morem esse ligno transversal!
nasi sepimentum perforandi et tan-
quam pessulo nares sibi ita obturan-
di ut non nisi ore aperto spirare ipsis
liceat. Credibile ergo perenni obi-
cis hujus transversi pressura plani-
tiem istam sensim efiici,
Multo frequentius autem ossa
plana calvariae diutino pressu pe-
culiarem et passim quiclem itidem
eentilitiam conformationis mutatio-
nem patiuntnr, sive a commimi qua-
rundam nationum more infantes in
incunabulis collocancli, sive a vio-
lentiore enclieiresi, studio diu conti-
nuata, profectam.
Hinc Vesalius suo aevo Germa-
nos compresso plerumque occipitio
et lato çapite spectari ajebat, quod
pueri in cunxs clorso semper incum-
bant.
Bel-
Belgis vero oblongiora caeteris
tribuebat capita, quod matres $uos
puerulos fasciis involutes, in latere
et temporibus potissiraum dormire
sinant.
Hinc quoque barbari American!
circa Carolinam meridionalem ad
novam Mexico usque calvaria de-
pressa insignes sunt, quam infantibus
declivi situ in cunis contraliunt, quorum
vertex imo vero universi corporis
pondus immobiliter sacculo arena
infarcto incumbit rj.
Quod
r) v. Adair’s history o f the 'North-'American
Indians: pag. 9. athey fix the tender
„ infant on a kind of cradle * where his
„feet are tilted, above a foot higher than
„a horizontal-position; — his head bends
„back into a hole, made on purpose to receive
it, where he. bears the chief part
„ o f his weight on the crown o f the head,
„upon a small bag o f sand, without being
„in the least able to move himself. 'By
„this pressure and their thus flattening
„the crown of the head, they consequentl
y make their heads thick and their faces