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percentage of people with broad skulls; skulls, that 

 is, the breadth of which is more, often very much 

 more, than four-fifths of the length. 



At the present day, in whatever direction we 

 travel inland from the continental area occupied 

 by the blond long-heads, whether south-west, into 

 central France; south, through the Walloon prov- 

 inces of Belgium into eastern France; into Swit- 

 zerland, South Germany, and the Tyrol; or south- 

 east, into Poland and Eussia; or north, into Fin- 

 land and Lapland, broad-heads make their appear- 

 ance, in force, among the long-heads. And, 

 eventually, we find ourselves among people who 

 are as regularly broad-headed as the Swedes and 

 North Germans are long-headed. As a general 

 rule, in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and South 

 Germany, the increase in the proportion of broad 

 skulls is accompanied by the appearance of a larger 

 and larger proportion of men of brunet com- 

 plexion and of a lower stature; until, in central 

 France and thence eastwards, through the Ce- 

 vennes and the Alps of Dauphiny, Savoy, and Pied- 

 mont, to the western plains of North Italy, the 

 tall blond long-heads * practically disappear, and 



* I may plead the precedent of the good English words 

 " block-head " and " thick-head " for " broad-head " and 

 " long-head," but I cannot say that they are elegant. I 

 might have employed the technical terms brachycephali 

 and dolichocephali. But it cannot be said that they are 

 much more graceful ; and, moreover, they are sometimes 

 employed in senses different from that which I have given 

 in the definition of broad-heads and long-heads. The 



