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sharp, because the mountains here are quite high and impassable, 

 save at a few points. On the east, however, by Pesaro, where 

 natural barriers fail, the northern element has penetrated farther 

 to the south. It has overflowed into Umbria, Tuscany, and 

 Marche, being there once more in possession of a congenial moun- 



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tainous habitat.* The same geographical isolation which, as Sy- 

 monds asserts, fostered the pietism of Assisi, has enabled this 

 northern type to hold its own against aggression from the south. 

 It is rather interesting to note the prevalence of the brachy- 

 cephalic Alpine race in this mountainous part of Italy ; for no- 

 where else in the peninsula proper is there any evidence of that 



* Vide, on the Umbrians, Zampa, in Archivio per 1'Antropologia, xviii, 1888, pp. 175 

 et seq. ; and Memorie Accademia pontiticia del Nuovi Lincei, Rome, 1889, pp. Ill et seq. 



