Railway Locomotives and Cars Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...the difference between the Bengalee and the Burmese; the skull of the former possesses a greater occipital protu. berance than that of any people I have ever met, it is, in fact, seiniglobular, and the whole skull extraordinarily small, divested of any angular or rugged projections, and of remarkably thin lamina;; (these observations are founded on examinations of hundreds of the Bengalee skulls;) the cranium of the latter (Burmese) possesses what I have never found in any other nation--a perfectly flat occipital bone, so much so, that any Burmese skull will rest on a broader and firmer base when placed with the face upwards, than any other position. As if to compensate for the flatness of the occipital bone, the parietal or side walls of the skull bulge out in an extraordinary manner; the brain case (unlike the Hindoos) is very large, and the limine extraordinary thick.--Among my Burmese specimens were the mutilated skulls of Burmese soldiers, found near Rangoon, some of which were clove in twain by the prowess of British soldiers.--From Montgomery Martin's History of the British Colonies. VOL. III. OF THE RAILROAD JOUR NAL AND ADVOCATE OF INTERNAL IMPROVE- MENTS is published once a week in quarto form, with 10 pages to each number, at 93; or in semi-monthly form, of 32 pages, stitched in a cover of colored inner, at $4 per annum, in advance. The Just mid second volumes of the Journal may be had in (wo parts to the year, either stitched in covers or bound in boards, at the subscription price, with prise of binding, in one part, 50 cents, in two parts SI per volume. Those in covers may bo sent by mail to miy part of the country, tho same as a magazine. Published Mi No. 35 Wall st., New-York, by D. K. Mi.ior, Editor und Proprietor. THE MECHANICS' MAGAZINE A...