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characters. Typical specimens have tall and mas- 

 sive frames, fair complexions, blue eyes, and yel- 

 low or reddish hair — that is to say, they are pro- 

 nounced blonds. Their skulls are long, in the 

 sense that the breadth is usually less, often much 

 less, than four-fifths of the length, and they are 

 usually tolerably high. But in this last respect 

 they vary. Men of this blond, long-headed race 

 abound from eastern Prussia to northern Belgium; 

 they are met with in northern France and are 

 common in some parts of our own islands. The 

 people of Teutonic speech, Goths, Saxons, Ale- 

 manni, and Franks, who poured forth out of the 

 regions bordering the North Sea and the Baltic, 

 to the destruction of the Roman Empire, were men 

 of this race; and the accounts of the ancient his- 

 torians of the incursions of the Gauls into Italy and 

 Greece, between the fifth and the second centuries 

 b. c, leave little doubt that their hordes were 

 largely, if not wholly, composed of similar men. 

 The contents of numerous interments in southern 

 Scandinavia prove that, as far back as archeology 

 takes us into the so-called neolithic age, the great 

 majority of the inhabitants had the same stature 

 and cranial peculiarities as at present, though their 

 bony fabric bears marks of somewhat greater rug- 

 gedness and savagery. There is no evidence that 

 the country was occupied by men before the advent 

 of these tall, blond long-heads. But there is proof 

 of the presence, along with the latter, of a small 



