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same stature and cranial peculiarities as at 

 present, though their bony fabric bears marks of 

 somewhat greater ruggedness and savagery. There 

 is no evidence that the country was occupied by 

 men before the advent of these tall, blond long- 

 heads. But there is proof of the presence, along 

 with the latter, of a small percentage of people 

 with broad skulls ; skulls, that is, the breadth of 

 which is more, often very much more, than four- 

 fifths of the length. 



At the present day, in whatever direction we 

 travel inland from the continental area occupied 

 by the blond long-heads, whether south-west, into 

 central France ; south, through the Walloon pro- 

 vinces of Belgium into eastern France ; into 

 Switzerland, South Germany, and the Tyrol ; or 

 south-east, into Poland and Russia ; or north, into 

 Finland and Lapland, broad-heads make their 

 appearance, in force, among the long-heads. And, 

 eventually, we find ourselves among people who 

 are as regularly broad-headed as the Swedes and 

 North Germans are long-headed. As a general 

 rule, in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and South 

 Germany, the increase in the proportion of broad 

 skulls is accompanied by the appearance of a larger 

 and larger proportion of men of brunet com- 

 plexion and of a lower stature ; until, in central 

 France and thence eastwards, through the Ceven- 

 nes and the Alps of Dauphiny, Savoy, and Pied- 

 mont, to the western plains of North Italy, the 



