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Toriioa river, on the conlriirv, have mostly a fairer population with 

 less Lappic and more Finnish or Swedish hlcjod. Thus racial changes 

 of considerahle magnitude are found to take place in the different 

 districts. 



TABLE 1. The increase in the population of the province of \orr- 

 liotten (luring the years ISIO — /920. (jivimj the numbers of Su^edish, 

 Finnish (uid Lappish inhabit(uifs according to the offici<d statistics 



of Sweden. 



When one has to separate different folk- or race-gnmps found 

 within one and the same territory from each other, one cannot make 

 use of philological, distinguishing marks, for quite different nations 

 not seldom speak the same language. The limits of speech and race 



ßrOfn Dark mUrii Liyhl 



Fig. 2. 



thus are not coincident. It belongs to anthropology and race-biology, 

 with their special methods, to state the characteristic similarities and 

 dissimilarities which distinguish and divide the population into impor- 

 tant race-groups or race-components. 



