Charlevoix county herald., 1913-03-08

Htlie worn before the pieces were embedded
wneie tney were found They are not friable
out tough and hard. The piece of bone forming
part OF the wall of the brain case Is extraord
harlly thlck-as much a third OF an inch
ms lower Jaw has two molar teeth (the first
and second) in place. They are worn very fiat
on the surface. The jawbone is chiefly remark
able for the breadth of the outstanding part or
'ramus." and the shaowness of the notch g
(calied the sigmoid notch") between the articu-
lar process A and the process facing 1t (the
coronoid). In this the Sussex lower law is I'M
like modern mans, and approaches the heavy
apellke Jaw found in early Peistocene sands
at Heidelberg
l have roughly sketched the four lower laws
in the accompanying figure so that these points
can be compared. / made the sketch of the Sux-
sex jaw hurriedly and it must not be regarded
as strictly accurate in measurements.
The front part OF It is to large extent broken
away, only its lower end marked in the draw
ing, being preserved. But this is a most i'm
portant bit. 1t Is fattened on the under side,
and forms fiat, broad union" Cor symphyss)
with the other half of the jaw (broken away
reaching as far back as the g. in the word Fig
This DR. Smith Woodward shows is unlike the
region In modern man, in the
Heidelberg jaw. 1t is almost exactly like the
union of the two halves of the jaw in the chin
panzee, and justiies the completion Of the jaw
made by Mr.. Frank Barlow. the able modeler of
the Natural History Museum. at DR.. Smith Wood
wards suggestion.
To fill up the space for teeth indicated by the
bone, it is necessary to introduce two large BIZ
cuspids a large canine and two large front
teeth. bigger than those Of man and like those
Of a wellgrown chimpanzee
The skull has been carefully completed" from
Its fragments by DR. Smith Woodward and Mr..
Barlow and proves to have q good straight fore
head, and is probably that of woman. 1t does
not resemble the skulls Of the Neanderhal race.
and is in general characters closely similar to
that OF the inhabitants OF this par OF Sussex
| 1000 years ago.
The gravel in which this fragmentary skull
| and jawbone were foun. embedded proves to be
| as remarkable as are the human remains them
! selves The great valley known the Wead
of Sussex is bounded on the north and south and
east and west by chalk downs. often much as
| GOO feet or 700 feet above the sea level The
7 chalk once stretched right over the Weald con-
| tInuously II has been gradually dissolved and
| worn away by little streams sinking deeper and
| deeper into 1t, and carrying the chalk in solu-
| ton and even the green sand below 1t,
1 away TO the sea The result is that the sands
and CLAWS Of the great sub-cretaceous fresh-water
/ deposit known as "the weaden" containing re-
! mains OF Iguanodon and other great reptiles. are
| exposed The chalt and green sand which once
| lay to the thickness Of several hundred feet over
| the present surface have been slowly carried
away but they still remain all around the edge
| of this great valley OF erosion The waters
| which wore awav the chalk over this form
| ed rravels containing the nnts washed by them
from the chalk and they must have been Law.
ing down these crsvels at different levels with
out cease from The cnrler times. when the chalk
was hardly wcrr AL until the present day
'Vc find on III oHoe Of the Weald valley high
| pp ON tho ton ~ir', hine what are known "a