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 Cemetery at Brighthampton. 95 ham, with the exception of this being a few tenths of an inch smaller in two directions. The measurements are here given. Skull, No. 46. Horizontal circumference. . .20 inches Longitudinal diameter. . . 6'9 Frontal region, length. . 5-1 breadth. . .4-6 height Parietal region, length. . . 4-9 breadth. . .5-5 height Occipital region, length. . . 4-6 breadth. . . 5'3 height Face, length. . . . . 4'3 breadth. . . . . 5-1 Skull, No. 53. This is larger and smoother than the last, and has much more the character of a female cranium. In the interment the facial portion has not been distorted, but the head has been forcibly bent forward, and all the cervical vertebrae are impacted between the foramen magnum and the chin, except the first, which was so crushed as to have dropped out piecemeal. The teeth are well preserved, the upper ones projecting some little distance in front of the lower. The measurements of the skull are here given ; they exceed those of No. 46. Skull, No. 53. Horizontal circumference. . . 20-8 inches Longitudinal diameter. . . 7'5 Frontal region, length. 5'0 breadth. . . 4 G height. Parietal region, length .... 5-1 ,, breadth. . . 5'1 height. Occipital region, length. . . 4-9 breadth. 5'1 ,, height Face, length. . . . . 4-2 breadth. . . . 4-8 From the general smoothness of this cranium I conclude that, like No. 46, it must be that of a female, the ridges or marks for the attachment of muscles being less strongly developed than those of the other skulls, some of which are decidedly males; and these muscular impressions would appear, when connected with the larger dimensions of the head, to be the principal points of distinguishing the males from the females. A strong family likeness, so to speak, is common