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in which these races appear with least admixture 

 are — (1) Scandinavia, North Germany, and parts 

 of the British Islands; (2) central France, the 

 central European highlands, and Piedmont; (3) 

 Arctic and eastern Europe, central Asia; (-i) the 

 western parts of the British Islands and of France; 

 Spain, South Italy. And the inhabitants of the 

 localities which lie between these foci present the 

 intermediate gradations, such as short blond 

 long-heads, and tall brunet short-heads, and long- 

 heads which might be expected to result from their 

 intermixture. The evidence at present extant is 

 consistent with the supposition that the blond 

 long-heads, the brunet broad-heads, and the brunet 

 long-heads have existed in Europe throughout his- 

 toric times, and very far back into pre-historic 

 times. There is no proof of any migration of 

 Asiatics into Europe, west of the basin of the 

 Dnieper, down to the time of Attila. On the con- 

 trary, the first great movements of the European 

 population of which there is any conclusive evi- 

 dence is that series of Gaulish invasions of the east 

 and south, which ultimately extended from North 

 Italy as far as Galatia in Asia Minor. 



It is now time to consider the relations between 

 the phenomena of racial distribution, as thus de- 

 fined, and those of the distribution of languages. 

 The blond long-heads of Europe speak, or have 

 spoken, Lithuanian, Teutonic, or Celtic dialects, 



