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of the North of France ; 2, towards the east where it joins 

 with blonds of the Cher region ; 3, to the west in the 

 direction of Angouleme ; and 4, southwards towards Pe- 

 riaueux. 



The third route of blond immigration would be the 

 route from Paris to Bordeaux through Angouleme. 



Limoges formed a centre, and towards the four points 

 of the compass lay four very ancient and important towns, 

 Avaricum (Bourges), Gergovia (Clermont), Vesuna (Peri- 

 gueux), and Ecolisma (Angouleme). The latter town was 

 the only one of the four that was not united to Limoges 

 either by a Roman road of the first order, or later by a 

 postal route ; and we find in the region between these 

 towns the blonds are deficient. The importance of the 

 communications between Limoges and Bordeaux through 

 Perigueux is affirmed by the long line of blonds which occur 

 along that route. To take a biological simile, Limoges 

 represents a ganglion protruding its nerve fibres in all 

 directions towards other similar ganglia. 



The distribution of black hair is worthy of note. In Dor- 

 dogne it is marked in la Double, in the valleys of the rivers 

 Dordogne, Isle and Dronne. Secondary centres extend 

 towards the north of Charente and of Creuse. There is 

 thus a current inverse to that of the blonds. The great 

 pressure of blonds came from the north-east and from the 

 north ; it traversed the district obliquely in a north-east to 

 south-west line. Inversely the black-haired race appears 

 to be massed in the south-west, and to be distributed, with 

 a gradually decreasing importance, towards the north-east 

 and north. 



STATURE. 



The measurements of the stature are not so instructive 

 from a racial point of view as might have 'been expected. 



All the tall statures are massed at the circumference of 

 the four Departments of which the statistics are available, 

 with the exception of an important centre about Limoges. 

 In the map the distribution of the heights over 1640 mm. 

 (5 ft. 4|- in.) is shown by the vertical lines. In mapping 



