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and of good stature. In the extreme north, on 

 the other hand, marked broad-headedness is com- 

 bined with low stature, swarthiness, and more or 

 less strongly mongolian features, in the Lapps. 

 And it is to be observed that this type prevails 

 increasingly to the eastward, among the central 

 Asiatic populations. 



The population of the British Islands, at the 

 present time, offers the two extremes of the tall 

 blond and the short brunet types. The tall blond 

 long-heads resemble those of the continent ; but 

 our short' brunet race is long-headed. Brunet 

 broad-heads, such as those met with in the 

 central European highlands, do not exist among 

 us. This absence of any considerable number of 

 distinctly broad-headed people (say with the 

 cephalic index above 81 or 82) in the modern 

 population of the United Kingdom is the more 

 remarkable, since the investigations of the late Dr. 

 Thurnam, and others, proved the existence of a 

 large proportion of tall broad-heads among the 

 people interred in British tumuli of the neolithic 

 a,ge. It would seem that these broad-skulled 

 immigrants have been absorbed by an older long- 

 skulled population ; just as, in South Germany, 

 the long-headed Alemanni have been absorbed by 

 the older broad-heads. The short brunet long- 

 heads are not peculiar to our islands. On the 

 contrary, they abound in western France and in 

 Spain, while they predominate in Sardinia, Corsica, 



