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the area of the distribution of this race, in prim- 

 aeval times, lay in Europe, rather than in Asia. 



For the last two thousand years, at least, the 

 southern half of Scandinavia and the opposite or 

 southern shores of the Baltic have been occupied 

 by a race of mankind possessed of very definite 

 characters. Typical specimens have tall and 

 massive frames, fair complexions, blue eyes, and 

 yellow or reddish hair that is to say, they are 

 pronounced blonds. Their skulls are long, in the 

 sense that the breadth is usually less, often much 

 less, than four-fifths of the length, and they are 

 usually tolerably high. But in this last respect 

 they vary. Men of this blond, long-headed race 

 abound from eastern Prussia to northern Belgium ; 

 they are met with in northern France and are 

 common in some parts of our own islands. The 

 people of Teutonic speech, Goths, Saxons, Ale- 

 manni, and Franks, who poured forth out of the 

 regions bordering the North Sea and the Baltic, to 

 the destruction of the Roman Empire, were men 

 of this race ; and the accounts of the ancient his- 

 torians of the incursions of the Gauls into Italy 

 and Greece, between the fifth and the second 

 centuries B.C., leave little doubt that their hordes 

 were largely, if not wholly, composed of similar 

 men. The contents of numerous interments in 

 southern Scandinavia prove that, as far back as 

 archaeology takes us into the so-called neolithic 

 age, the great majority of the inhabitants had the 



