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on of indolent insensibility; the forehead, as compared with Europeans, is narrow. The facial angle of the European is assumed to be eighty-seven; that of the American, by induction from many admeasurements, is declared to be seventy-five. The Morton's Crania Americana, 260, 261 mean internal capacity of the skull of the former is eighty-seven cubic inches; of the barbarous tribes of the latter, it is found to be, at least, eighty-two. And yet the inflexibility of organization is not so abdistinguished by their language. The mounds in the valley of the Mississippi have also been used—the smaller ones, perhaps, have been constructed—as burial-places of a race, of which the peculiar ???. C. Warren, in Delafield's Antiquities, 30. Morton, Crania Americ. 228-230. Warren, on the Sensorial and Nervous System, 137, 138 organization, as seen in the broader forehead, the larger facial angle, the less angular figure of the orbits of the eye, the more narrow nose, the less evident proje