DETERMINATION OF THE PLACE OF RAPANUI. 



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Paumotu, Mangareva, Tahiti and the Marquesas, we have one more 

 modulus. 



The first table is, like Table 33, a computation for the whole province, 

 the sum of the net stocks being now 22,000: 



Table 42. 



The comparison of Tables 33 and 42 shows how widely the two speech 

 elements in the province vary when weighted with this factor of dif- 

 fusion. In the individual tables which ensue, modulus 1 of necessity is 

 absent save in the first. 



Table 43. 



As before, the summation table for the several languages is combined 

 in Table 44 with the percentage results of the quantitative examination, 

 the latter set down in italic figures. 



It is immaterial how we interpret these findings, the artificial results 

 of the employment of a modulus of quality in one set, the percentage 

 results in the other. I have been content to denominate the findings of 

 the qualitative investigation artificial, yet are they any more artificial 



