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of being removed and preserved. As no positive or historical evidence can be had that these are Natchez crania, I will state the facts from which I infer that they are. The only people known to have been in the country since the French took possession of it are Europeans, Choctaws, Negros and Natchez Indians. The form of these crania clearly determines that they are neither of the first three, and that they represent one of the four is evident from the fact that they were buried with European Ornaments. The form of these crania is unlike that of any tribe of the human race now known, except the Chinooks. They are very much compressed in their occipito-frontal diameter, so much so as to measure but four inches, while, from ear to ear, they measure six. There can be no doubt but that they were thus deformed during infancy by one compress being applied to the occipital and another to the frontal bone of the head.

    Having satisfied myself that the Natchez Indians had flat heads, and recollecting that I found flat heads in the Mounds of Virginia  I could not resist the conclusion that the Natchez and Monumentals were the same people. But to make the matter more certain I proceeded to examine the Mounds in Miss.  On a plantation four miles above Vicksburg, there are five mounds so arranged as to constitute a circle, one of them is very much larger than the others. The smallest one is situated a little without the circle and it is the only one that was appropriated to Sepulchral purposes. I found many crania in this Mound and succeeded in finding one so well preserved as to admit of being removed without injury.  It is precisely like the Natchez head. Fourteen miles from Vicksburg on the Yazoo river are eight mounds, six of them are so arranged as to form a circle. One of them is very large, but neither of these contain any bones. The other two are some distance from the circle and are filled with human bones. From one of them I disinterred a great number of crania, but obtained only three in such a state of preservation as to admit of being removed without falling into fragments. Two of these were flattened precisely like those above described, the third was less compressed.   With these heads I found French beads, and history informs us (but the fact is not generally known) that the French built a fort at this place, and also a church, which was called St. Peter's. The soldiers of the Fort as at Natchez were massacred by the Indians. That these Indians were the same as the Natchez  cannot now be doubted. Hence it is clear that the Monumental Indians and the Natchez were the same people.
   The fashion of cranial compression vs. deformity was not extended to the females, for the female crania of these mounds have the natural configuration; but they are very unlike the female crania of the present tribes - they are more beautiful and have a less savage aspect. They resemble very clearly a female head which I have from the Temple of the sun near Lima in Peru, in which no interments have been made since the Conquest of Pizaro. It is interesting to remark that the female crania, so for as regards the structure of the bones, are better preserved than the male. The cranial bones of the female are thin and dense - the male are thick and spongy, but have the sutures more complete, which seems to have resutured from the influence exerted upon the opific pricep by the compression. The