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 396 MENTOR nearly perfect, and indicates great strength, was placed in the museum of natural history in Paris. It is supposed to belong to the palae- olithic age. The cranium is fractured behind The Bone Caves near Mentone. and in front, so as to prevent perfect measure- ment. It is dolichocephalous, arched at the summit, and the sutures are all consolidated. The facial angle is nearly 85. The height oi the man is estimated to have been six feet. MENTOR, in Homer's Odyssey, the son of Alcimus, and friend of Ulysses, who intrusted to him the charge of his house on his departure from Ithaca. To him fell the care of young Telemachus, and Minerva assumed his form in accompanying the latter on the journey in search of his father, acting the part of a wise counsellor. On the return of Ulysses, Mentor assisted him in the contest with the suitors and brought about a reconciliation between him and his people. The name is applied m 5r r 5S? fly to any 8a S e adviser or monitor. IOTZ (Grer. Mainz; Fr. Mayence ; anc. Mo- guntiacum), a -fortified city of Germany, capi- tal, of Rhenish Hesse, on the left bank of the Khme nearly opposite its junction with the Mam, 20 m. W S. W. of Frankfort, with which it is connected by railway, and within a few mles of Wiesbaden; pop. in 1871, inclusive of the garrison, 53,918. A bridge of boats 1,700 ft. long connects it with the village of Castel on the opposite bank of the Rhine, and a cost- ly railway bridge, erected in 1862, connects it with the opposite side of the Main. The sys- controlling both sides of the Rhine, and consist- ing of a double line of wall, with bastions and outworks, and citadel in the centre. The town rises from the river in the form of an amphi- theatre The houses are generally lofty, and many of the streets are narrow and confined f late years a better system of building has MENTZ prevailed, and there are several handsome squares. The Gutenberg-Platz contains a mon- ument to Gutenberg, who was born and died in Mentz, with a statue by Thorwaldsen, and the Schiller-Platz has a bronze statue of the poet. There are 11 churches, including the church of St. Ignatius, the ceiling of which is adorned with paintings from the life of the saint; and the ca- thedral, founded in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 14th, of little architectural merit, but having fine painted win- dows and a beautiful pul- pit. It suffered greatly during the siege of 1793, and of its treasures and famous library nothing is left; but it contains the monuments of sev- eral of the archbishop- electors of Mentz. The old electoral palace, re- stored in 1844, contains the town library of 120,- 000 volumes, a picture gallery, and a fine museum of Roman antiquities. There are Roman remains in and near Mentz, which Cathedral of Mentz. was a Roman camp under Drusus; among them are the Eichelstein, a great stone on one of the bastions of the citadel, which has been
 * em of fortification is extensive and elaborate,