. British and Foreign Medical Review; or, Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery. orefathers could moveblocks of stone as huge as the sphinxes and Memnons of Egypt. Amongthe evidences of their civilization, it may be mentioned that, in conse-quence of the frequency of infanticide, foundling-hospitals were esta-blished by the government, in which children were received and providedfor at the public expense. The subjugation of such a powerful peopleby a handful of brigands, as Dr. Morton terms the invading troop ofPizarro (consisting of sixty-two horsemen and 102 foot-soldiers, of w
. British and Foreign Medical Review; or, Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery. orefathers could moveblocks of stone as huge as the sphinxes and Memnons of Egypt. Amongthe evidences of their civilization, it may be mentioned that, in conse-quence of the frequency of infanticide, foundling-hospitals were esta-blished by the government, in which children were received and providedfor at the public expense. The subjugation of such a powerful peopleby a handful of brigands, as Dr. Morton terms the invading troop ofPizarro (consisting of sixty-two horsemen and 102 foot-soldiers, of whomtwenty were armed with cross-bows and three with muskets), is one ofthe most remarkable events in the history of nations. It was probablyonly a repetition, however, of the scene that had been acted four centuriespreviously, when the ancient Peruvians were invaded by the Toltecanemigrants. Of the physiognomy of the Toltecans, we have some curious remainsin bas-reliefs executed by them during their sojourn in Mexico. Fromone of these the subjoined figures (fig. 5) are copied. Were it not,. Vi^. 6. says Dr. Morton, for the evidence of undeniable facts, such configu-ration of the head would be pronounced altogether ideal. But when thereader has examined the real skulls figured in this work, and especiallythose of the Natchez tribe (who appear to have been of the Toltecanstock), he will perceive in them a distortion similar in kind to that repre-sented in the bas-reliefs of Palenque, but in a much more exaggerateddegree. Outlines of the profile and front views of one of these skulls 482 ;s Crania Americana. [Oct. are given in fig. 6. That the tribe of Natchez Indians was a branch ofthe Toltecan family, appeared from their traditions and usages. Their
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