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stone age. This was stoutly contested not only by the Dutch, but by 

 so eminent German authorities as Von Holder and others. The 

 research stimulated by the discussion has, I think, controverted 

 Virchow's hypothesis entirely. It is now generally recognized that 

 the majority of these Dutch are Teutonic by descent, not distin- 

 guishable from either the Flemish in Belgium or the Germans in 

 Hanover. 



The population of Zeeland, with parts of the provinces of North 

 and South Holland and Utrecht, however, including the low islands 



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Data for this map are corrected from the original skull measurements by adding two units, to 

 make them comparable with other maps based upon study of living heads. 



at the deltas of the Khine, Meuse, and Scheldt, is quite different. 

 Even here, all along the seacoast, the Teutonic characteristics seem 

 to have persisted, probably due to roving bands from the north 



