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Scandinavia, of pre-Koman Britain, of Gaul, of 

 Switzerland, reveal two types of skull — a broad 

 and a long — of which, in Scandinavia, the broad 

 seems to have belonged to the older stock, while 

 the reverse was probably the case in Britain, and 

 certainly in Switzerland. It has been assumed 

 that the broad-skulled people of ancient Scandi- 

 navia were Lapps; but there is no proof of the 

 fact, and they may have been, like the broad- 

 skulled Swiss and Germans, Xanthochroi. One of 

 the greatest of ethnological difficulties is to know 

 where the modern Swedes, Norsemen, and Saxons 

 got their long heads, as all their neighbours, Fins, 

 Lapps, Slavonians, and South Germans, are broad- 

 headed. Again, who were the small-handed * long- 

 headed people of the " bronze epoch," and what 

 has become of the infusion of their blood among 

 the Xanthochroi? 



At present Palaeontology yields no safe data to 

 the ethnologist. We know absolutely nothing of 

 the ethnological characters of the men of Abbe- 

 ville and Hoxne; but must be content with the 

 demonstration, in itself of immense value, that 

 Man existed in Western Europe when its physical 

 condition was widely different from what it is now, 

 and when animals existed, which, though they 



[* Supposed to be small-handed from the small handles 

 of their bronze swords. But I observe in the Assyrian 



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sculptures the same small handles, while the hands are by 

 no means small. How did the Assyrians use their swords? 

 So far as I know thrusting alone is represented. — 1894.] 



