. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF RACES, 44; Skull from a Mound on the Upper Mississippi. Fig. 319/-32 Fig. 320. Skull (Fig. 319) takenfrom a mound seatedon the high bluff whichoverlooks the Missis-sippi river, 150 milesabove the mouth of theMissouri. There weresix mounds, placed overeach in a right line,commencing with asmall one, only a fewfeet high, and termi-nating in another ofeight or ten feet eleva-t
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF RACES, 44; Skull from a Mound on the Upper Mississippi. Fig. 319/-32 Fig. 320. Skull (Fig. 319) takenfrom a mound seatedon the high bluff whichoverlooks the Missis-sippi river, 150 milesabove the mouth of theMissouri. There weresix mounds, placed overeach in a right line,commencing with asmall one, only a fewfeet high, and termi-nating in another ofeight or ten feet eleva-tion and twenty in di-ameter. This skull wasobtained from the fifth mound of the series. It is a large cranium, very full in the vertical diameter, and broadbetween the parietal bones. Longitudinal diameter, 7*1 inches; parietal, 5-3; frontal, 4-8; vertical, 5*5. Internalcapacity, 85*5 cubic Vertical View. Back View. Fig. 322. Skull from a Mound in Tennessee. This cranium (Fig. Fig. 321.£aa- 321) was exhumed bythe late distinguishedDr. Troost, of Nash-ville, Tennessee, from amound in that State, atthe junction of theFrench, Broad and Hol-eton rivers. Many othermounds are found inthis section of skull is remarkablefor its vertical and pa-rietal diameters, flat-ness and elevation ofthe occiput. The facialangle is also unusuallygreat. Longitudinal diameter, 6*6 inches; parietal, 5-6; frontal, 4*1; vertical, 5-6. Internalcapacity, 87-5 cubic inches. To the reader have thus been submitted specimens of Americanskulls, from parts of the continent the most widely separated — somecrania collected from the Toltecan, some from the Barbarous tribesof the present times, and others from ancient mounds and burial-places : and, although there are sundry minor varieties in the formsof crania — a few exceptions to the general rule, yet the type which I
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