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people occur at this day in considerable numbers among the inhabitants 
of the mountainous parts of the Barbary States. The Jews, almost 
every where, present specimens of the blonde and brunette types. The 
Ghelankis at the south end of the Caspian, the Nestorians of Persia, 
and the Kurds of the highlands between Turkey and Persia, are 
partially blonde. Many of the Turcomans who live just east of the 
Caspian Sea, though Turk by race and language, are blonde ; while 
the Persians to the south and the Tadjiks to the east, though Indo- 
European in speech, are brunette. Some of the Indo-European 
tribes in Afghanistan, and on the upper Indus, afford specimens of 
fair-haired and blue-eyed men. In short we may say that Xantho- 
chroi occur from the Arctic Ocean to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic 
to the Indus, in greater or smaller numbers, and that occasionally 
beyond these confines, among the Chinese or Coreans, or even the 
Indians of Northwest America, individuals may be met with, of 
pure blood, who exhibit either light eyes or fair hair. For example, 
the Spanish discoverers of the Thlinkeets of Alaska, expressly note 
the fact that some of them had blue eyes. “ Eran de color blanco y 
habia muchos con ojos azules.” They were of a white color and there 
were many with blue_eyes, says Perez. According to the Abbé 
David there is to be met with in Sétchuan, one of the northwestern 
provinces of China, an aboriginal race with light eyes and hair often 
chestnut or yellowish. 
During the last twenty-five years considerable quantities of statis- 
tics, relating to the colour of the hair, eyes, and skin, have been 
collected in various countries. In Great Britain Dr. Beddoe’s figures 
show that the number of blondes increases as we go north ; in France 
the fairest part of the population is in the north and north-east ; in 
Belgium in the north; in Gallicia, a part of Poland, the people are 
fairer in the north. In Germany the observations made on school 
children show that Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost province, is 
the fairest. The next fairest is not, as might be expected, the next 
most northerly province, East Prussia, but Pomerania, and the third 
in the list is Hanover. The geographical position of these provinces 
naturally leads to the inference that the Scandinavian Peninsula is 
the seat of the fairest population in the world. The blonde centre is 
probably somewhere in the southern half of that peninsula, as the 
Lapps in the north, though partly fair, are partly brunette. In every 
