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the heads are often more Teutonic in form than those of the peo- 

 ples of direct Germanic descent along the Belgian frontier ; nay, 

 more, in some cantons the people outdo the purest Scandinavians 

 in this respect. This region is also separated from all Teutonic 

 centers across country by several hundred miles of broader-headed 

 peoples. That disposes of the theory of colonization from the 

 north across France. Could the Teutons have come around by 

 sea, then, following the litus Saxonicum described in our last 

 paper ? Obviously not so ; for, as we shall see, the deepest pit of 

 long-headedness lies far inland, about the city of Pdrigueux. If 

 this be due to immigrants, they certainly could not have come in 

 ships. Is it possible, then, that the people of these departments 

 could have come from the south, an offshoot of the Mediterranean 

 type ? If so, they must have come over the Pyrenees or else across 

 the low pass down the course of the Garonne. In either case a 

 great dike of brachycephaly must have been heaped up behind 

 them, cutting off all connection with their base of racial supplies. 

 And then, after all, we do not place too much reliance in any case 

 upon theories of such wholesale bodily migration that populous 

 departments among the largest in France are completely settled 

 in a moment. Human beings in masses do not, as my friend 

 Major Livermore has put it, play leap-frog across the map in that 

 way, save under great provocation or temptation. We look for 

 slow-moving causes, not 

 cataclysms, just as the ge- 

 ologists have long since 

 learned to do. 



We may gain an idea of 

 the reality of this curious 

 phenomenon if we turn to 

 our second map, in which 

 the same region is charted 

 in great detail. The head 

 form is here given by can- 

 tons, small administrative 

 divisions intermediate be- 

 tween the department and 

 the commune or township. 

 The location of the capital 



cities of Limoges and Perigueux, on both maps, will enable the 

 reader to orient himself at once. The " key " shows the boundaries 

 of the departments. It is clear that a series of concentric circles of 

 increasing long-headedness that is, of light tints upon the map 

 point to a specific area where an extreme human type is prevalent. 



History offers no clew to the situation. The country in ques- 

 tion, in Caesar's time, was occupied by a number of tribes of 



KEY 



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 Teutonic 

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DEPARTMENTAL BOUNDARIES 



