Archive image from page 318 of The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature cyclopaediaoruni10rees Year: 1819 CRANIU M. have already confidered. They form indeed two interme- diate gradations, between the European and the Mongolian, on one fide, and the African on the other. The fourth, or American variety, includes all the Americans, excepting the inhabitants of the northern part of the continent, which we have clafTed with the Mongolian divilion. In this variety the cheeks are broad, but the malar bores are more roun
Archive image from page 318 of The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature cyclopaediaoruni10rees Year: 1819 CRANIU M. have already confidered. They form indeed two interme- diate gradations, between the European and the Mongolian, on one fide, and the African on the other. The fourth, or American variety, includes all the Americans, excepting the inhabitants of the northern part of the continent, which we have clafTed with the Mongolian divilion. In this variety the cheeks are broad, but the malar bores are more rounded and arched than in the Mongolian ; and not expanded to fiich an extent on either fide, nor polTcffing filch an angular form. The dibits are generally deep. The form of the forehead and vertex is influenced in many itiftances by the efforts of art. The cranium is generally fmooth. Canfes of the peculiar national forms of the Cranium. We cannot, at prefent, deliver any fatisfadtory account of the canfes of thofe differences which uuqutftionably prevail in the form of the cranium in the different varieties of the human fpecies ; much lefs are we able to Hnderftand the niamier, in which any affig-ned caiife may be fuppofed to operate in producing its effect. Yet we think it right to lay before the reader Blumenbach's remarks on this point., a; they tend, in f nne degree, to elucidate the fubjedt. Tire bones are the moll folid parts of the human body, and form a kind of firm fupport and foundation on which the fofter Itrudtures reft. Yet phyfiological experiment, and the phenomena of difeafe prove, that they are mhrh The two crania, which are exl the Anatomy of the Cranium, (/â £.<â . 5 & 6,) in illuftration of ibited in the firft plate of nn' ft0 chanSe th?.n the,f°rt,er Parts °[ the b°d-? Sr r \ â -11 |i »â c elements are continually melted down, and removed in need , , u r â 'r become, as it were, formed and fafliioned by their aftion. 3740, bv Huna
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