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Sardinia in breadth of head as well as in stature and in 

 blond coloration. And Liguria, which, in accordance 

 with its geographical position, stands third in order of 

 stature and fourth in that of colour, is tenth among the 

 provinces in the scale of brachycephaly. It may be as 

 well to give the complete scale, though as regards the 

 cephalic index it cannot be relied on so confidently as in 

 its other departments, as the number of heads measured, 

 though actually very large, was relatively small : — 



ORDER OF THE PROVINCES IN RELATIVE 



It is evidently necessary to go more into details. When 

 we do so, we find that the district of Aosta, among the 

 Alps, is the one in which the cephalic index attains its 

 maximum (89). It is also one of the only two in the king- 

 dom in which blond hair is more frequent than black, the 

 other being Domo d'Ossola, which is thought to have been 

 extensively Germanised. In stature, however, Aosta scarcely 

 attains the average of Piedmont ; in fact, owing probably 

 to the frequency of goitrous degeneration, it furnishes a 

 large number of undersized men. 



Castelnuovo di Garfagnana (a sub-district of Massa, in 



the Apennines), furnishes a striking contrast. It stands 



first among the districts of Italy in order of stature (1662 



mm.), but is very near the bottom of the scale of brachy- 



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