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H. LUNDBORG 



The bulk of people in the far north of Sweden consists, as I have 

 mentioned before, of »Finns», Swedes and Lapps, distributed in dif- 

 ferent proportions and combinations all over this extensive territory. 

 Other folk-elements, such as gipsies, descendants of Walloons and 

 Alpines form a very small part of the population as a whole and do 

 not therefore need to be considered. The Lapps are by nature a 



TABLE 2. Colour of eyes. Male sex. 



dark people; the Finns and Swedes on the other hand are fair. The 

 colour of eyes, which is inherited in a simple way following a precise 

 law, may on this account be used as a good distinguishing mark and 

 as a criterion of the amount of race-mixture between Lapps on the 

 one side and fair types (Finns and Swedes) on the other. Numerous 

 genealogical investigations, which I have carried out in the Territory 

 of the Finns in Norrbotten, have taught me, that practically all dark 

 persons living there are either pure bred Lapps or descendants of such. 

 This is on the whole also applicable to persons with dark-mixed eyes. 



