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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Teutonic Type. Blond. 

 Index, 11. 



New England. 

 For the farmer, 

 it is more suited 

 to the cultivation 

 of religious pro- 

 pensities than to 

 productsof amore 

 material kind. It 

 is the least capa- 

 ble of defense of 

 the three areas of 

 isolation ; but it 

 redeems its repu- 

 tation by its pen- 

 insular position. 

 It is off the main 

 line. It is its re- 

 moteness from the pathways of inva- 

 sion by land which has been its ethnic 

 salvation. 



In order to show the effect which 

 this varied environment, above de- 

 scribed, has exerted upon the racial 

 character of the French people, we 

 have arranged a series of three par- 

 allel maps in the following pages, 

 showing the exact distribution of the 

 main physical traits. For purposes 

 of comparison certain cities are lo- 

 cated upon them all alike, including 

 even the map of physical geography 



as well. A cross in the core of 

 Auvergne in each case ; the Rhine 

 shown in the northeast ; the loca- 

 tion of Paris, Lyons, Belfort, etc., 

 will enable the reader to keep 

 them all in line at once. 



Earlier in our work we have 

 seen that the several physical 

 traits which betoken race vary 

 considerably in their power of 

 resistance to environmental in- 

 fluences. This resistant power is 



greatest in the 

 - head form ; 

 less so in the 

 pigmentation 

 and stature. 

 As we are 

 now studying 

 races, let us 

 turn to our 

 most compe- 

 tent witness 

 first. It will 

 be remem- 

 bered, from a 

 preceding pa- 



per, that we 

 measure the 

 proportions of 



Alpine Type. Ilautcs Aipes. 

 Neutral. Inde.\, 96. 



Mediterranean Type. 

 Brunette. Index, 76. 



