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serve as an illustration. We have already made use of one in a 

 preceding paper. It is reproduced for purposes of comparison. 



In view of the nature of these physical changes induced by 

 ethnic crossing along the seacoast, we must look to the Teutonic 

 race for the lineage of the invaders. They must, on the whole, 

 have been light and long-headed. History, in this case, comes to 

 our aid. The Saxon pirates skirted the whole coast around to the 

 mouth of the Loire. In fact, they were so much in evidence that 

 part of it was known to the old geographers as the litus Saxoni- 

 cum. The largest colony which has left permanent traces of its 

 invasion in the character of its present population, although 



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BRITTANY 



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Caesar assured us that he exterminated it utterly, is located in 

 Morbihan. This department on the south coast of the peninsula, 

 as our map of coloration of all France shows, is one of the 

 blondest in all France. Its capital, Vannes, derives its name 

 from the Venetes, whose confederation occupied this area. Both 

 Strabo and Diodorus of Sicily asserted that these people be- 

 longed to the Belgse (Teutonic stock), although modern historians 

 of Gaul seem inclined to deny it. Our anthropological evidence 

 is all upon the side of the ancient geographers. 



From a different source, although due indirectly to these same 

 Teutonic barbarians, are derived the physical characteristics of the 

 people in the north of Brittany, near Dinan, in the valley of the 

 Ranee. Its location appears upon both of our maps of Brittany. 



