| Ross Cox - 1832 - 370 pages
...resemble those of a mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds...stronger aversion to a Round-head than these savages.* * Doctor Swan, on examining the skulls I had taken, candidly confessed that nothing short of ocular... | |
| 1832 - 402 pages
...resemble those of a mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds an inch in thickness. It never afterward recovers its rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty, and the most devoted... | |
| Ross Cox - 1832 - 334 pages
...resemble those of a mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds an inch in thickness. It never afterward recovers its rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty, and the most devoted... | |
| William Charles Linnaeus Martin - 1840 - 438 pages
...resemble those of a Mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds...essential point of beauty ; and the most devoted adherent to our first Charles never entertained a stronger aversion to a round-head than these savages." t Simia,... | |
| John Pye Smith - 1840 - 566 pages
...in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the tipper part of it seldom exceeds an inch in thickness. It...rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty.' " Linnaeus Martin's Nat. Hist. of the Mammalia, vol. I. p. 207. In the American Journal of Science,... | |
| Alexander Warfield Bradford - 1841 - 446 pages
...in this manner upwards of a year. * * When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds an inch in thickness."* The Charibs compressed the heads of their infants by boards and ligatures, and rendered the forehead... | |
| John Pye Smith - 1843 - 576 pages
...resemble those of a mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds...rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty.' " Linnaeus Martin's Nat. Hist, of the Mammalia, vol. I. p. 207. In the American Journal of Science,... | |
| John Pye Smith - 1848 - 436 pages
...resemble those of a mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds...rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty.' " Linnseus Martin's Nat. Hist, of the Mammalia, vol. ip 207. In the American Journal of Science, edited... | |
| John Pye Smith - 1852 - 576 pages
...resemble those of a mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom, exceeds...rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty.' " Linnaeus Martin's Nat. Hist, of the Mammalia, vol. ip 207. In the " American Journal of Science,"... | |
| 1853 - 390 pages
...resemble those of a mouse in a trap. When released from the inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds an inch in thickness. It never after recovers its rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty, and the most devoted adherent... | |
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