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represent the race, or one of the races, of men who 

 inhabited Europe in the quaternary epoch, can 

 any connection be traced between it and existing 

 races ? That is to say, do any of them exhibit 

 characters approximating those of the Spy men 

 or other examples of the Neanderthaloid race ? 

 Put in the latter form, I think that the question 

 may be safely answered in the affirmative. Skulls 

 do occasionally approach the Neanderthaloid type, 

 among both the brunet and the blond long-head 

 races. For the former, I pointed out the resem- 

 blance, long ago, in some of the Irish river-bed 

 skulls. For the latter, evidence of various kinds 

 may be adduced ; but I prefer to cite the autho- 

 rity of one of the most accomplished and cautious 

 of living anthropologists. Professor Virchow was 

 led, by historical considerations, to think that the 

 Teutonic type, if it still remained pure and un- 

 defiled anywhere, should be discoverable among 

 the Frisians, in their ancient island homes on the 

 North German coast, remote from the great move- 

 ments of nations. In their tall stature and blond 

 complexion the Frisians fulfilled expectation ; but 

 their skulls differed in some respects from those 

 of the neighbouring blond long-heads. The de- 

 pression, or flattening (accompanied by a slight 

 increase in breadth), which occurs occasionally 

 among the latter, is regular and characteristic 

 among the Frisians ; and, in other respects, the 

 Frisian skull unmistakably approaches the Nean- 



