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character of the population of the Alps varies in direct relation 

 with the physical geography of the country. 



The Austrian Tyrol is one of the most favored spots in Europe 

 for the study of the order and succession of the long and the 

 broad heads respectively. It is the geographical center of the 

 continent. It holds strategically the great highway of communi- 

 cation the Brenner Pass between the north and the south of Eu- 

 rope. As our map shows, it is also the crest of the great European 



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watershed. From it flow the Inn River and the Drave into the 

 Danube, thence to the Baltic Sea on the east ; the Adige is an 

 affluent of the Po, running due south to the Adriatic; and on the 

 west the branches of the Rhine carry its waters into the Atlantic. 

 Each of these great river systems has marked a line of human 

 immigration and has directed racial movement to this spot. By 

 the Danube the Slavs have come, and by Innsbruck, over the 

 Brenner, the Teutons have passed across into the valley of the 

 Adige and thence directly into the plain of Italy. Back over the 

 same route have flowed many phases of Mediterranean culture into 

 the north from the time of the Phoenicians to the present. The 

 Tyrol, for these reasons, is the one spot in Europe in which racial 



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