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and South Italy, and, it may be, occupied a much 

 larger area in ancient times. 



Thus, in the region which has been under con- 

 sideration, there are evidences of the existence of 

 four races of men (1) blond long-heads of tall 

 stature, (2) brunet broad-heads of short stature, (3) 

 mongoloid brunet broad-heads of short stature, (4) 

 brunet long-heads of short stature. The regions 

 in which these races appear with least admixture 

 are (1) Scandinavia, JNorth Germany, and parts 

 of the British Islands; (2) central France, the 

 central European highlands, and Piedmont; (3) 

 Arctic and eastern Europe, central Asia ; (4) the 

 western parts of the British Islands and of France ; 

 Spain, South Italy. And the inhabitants of the 

 localities which lie between these foci present the 

 intermediate gradations, such as short blond 

 long-heads, and tall brunet short-heads and long- 

 heads which might be expected to result from 

 their intermixture. The evidence at present extant 

 is consistent with the supposition that the blond 

 long-heads, the brunet broad -heads, and the brunet 

 long-heads have existed in Europe throughout 

 historic times, and very far back into pre-historic 

 times. There is no proof of any migration of 

 Asiatics into Europe, west of the basin of the 

 Dnieper, down to the time of Attila. On the 

 contrary, the first great movements of the 

 European population of which there is any con- 

 clusive evidence is that series of Gaulish invasions 



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