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creased bodily height is at the same time a highroad of immi- 

 gration for the Teutonic race, which always carries a tall stature 

 wherever it goes. The main axis of fertility from Paris to Bor- 



STATURE 

 FRANCE 



1831-60 



AVERAGE ABOUT 

 5 mr 6 INCHES 



Below 41Z 



PER THOUSAND 

 SHORTER THAN 

 5 FEET 1.5 INCHES 



( 1.56 METERS ) 



to5Z 

 to56.4 

 to 65 



to 



AVERAGE ABOUT 



5 FEET 3 INCHES 



deaux does not appear, for two reasons. The area about Limoges 

 and Perigueux (see map of cephalic index on page 293), with the 

 shortest population of all, is the seat of a prehistoric people which 

 we shall describe in our next paper ; and north of it toward Or- 

 leans local causes with which we have not time to deal here have 

 been operative. 



Brittany and Normandy are two of the most interesting re- 

 gions in Europe to the traveler and the artist. The pleasing land- 

 scapes and the quaint customs all serve to awaken interest. To 

 the anthropologist as well the whole district possesses a marked 

 individuality of its own. Within it lie the two racial extremes 

 of the French people the old and the new closely in contact 

 with one another. Attention was first attracted to the region 

 because of the persistence of the Celtic spoken language, now 

 vanished everywhere else on the mainland of Europe quite ex- 



