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The population of the British Islands, at the 

 present time, offers the two extremes of the tall 

 blond and the short brunet types. The tall blond 

 long-heads resemble those of the continent; but 

 our short brunet race is long-headed. Brunet 

 broad-heads, such as those met with in the central 

 European highlands, do not exist among us. This 

 absence of any considerable number of distinctly 

 broad-headed people (say with the cephalic index 

 above 81 or 82) in the modern population of the 

 United Kingdom is the more remarkable, since the 

 investigations of the late Dr. Thurnam, and others, 

 proved the existence of a large proportion of tall 

 broad-heads among the people interred in British 

 tumuli of the neolithic age. It would seem that 

 these broad-skulled immigrants have been ab- 

 sorbed by an older long-skulled population; just as, 

 in South Germany, the long-headed Alemanni have 

 been absorbed by the older broad-heads. The 

 short brunet long-heads are not peculiar to our 

 islands. On the contrary, they abound in western 

 France and in Spain, while they predominate in 

 Sardinia, Corsica, and South Italy, and, it may be, 

 occupied a much larger area in ancient times. 



Thus, in the region which has been under con- 

 sideration, there are evidences of the existence of 

 four races of men — (1) blond long-heads of tall 

 stature, (2) brunet broad-heads of short stature, (3) 

 mongoloid brunet broad-heads of short stature, (4) 



brunet long-heads of short stature. The regions 

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