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all the isolated bits of highland down to the Baltic plain. Oftentimes 

 the result of intermixture is a disharmonism, in which the broad 

 Alpine head is conjoined with the longish face of the Teuton, or the 

 reverse. An example of the first combination is depicted herewith. 

 Types of this kind occurring everywhere in the south prove that the 

 Teutonic invaders were finally outnumbered by the indigenous Al- 

 pine inhabitants. The pure, unmixed Alpine race finds its expression 

 in the plateaus of Bavaria and Wiirtemburg, in the Schwarzwald, 

 the Rauhe Alp, and parts of the Thuringerwald. Such is our third 

 type, with its rounded face and skull foreshortened from front to 

 back. Our representative here photographed was dark brown both 

 in hair and eyes, nose rather irregular, less finely molded perhaps; 

 certainly considerably broader at the nostrils than in the Teutons. 

 At the same time the stature was short, only five feet one and a half 



Alpine Type. Oberwolfach i. Baden. Stature, 159 metre. Cephalic Index, 86 - 5. 



inches, with a correspondingly stocky figure. Other examples of 

 these several types will be found scattered through the following 

 pages. We need not enter into further details. The facts speak 

 for themselves. There can be no doubt of two distinct races of 



men. 



It is especially important to emphasize the fact that the heads 

 broaden not only from the neighborhood of Denmark southward 

 but toward the east as well. This raises what was once a most deli- 

 cate question. What is the place of the Prussians among the other 

 peoples of modern Germany? The political supremacy of the house 

 of Hohenzollern in the Diet of the empire and the whilom rivalry 

 mid jealousy of the other states made it once a matter of some con- 



