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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



[CHAP. ix. 



conquest of Gaul. In Caesar's Aquitania, as might be 

 expected from the open and defenceless country, the 



DEPARTMENTS 

 NOIRS 



fTTTn DEPARTMENTS 

 CRIS 



FIG. 113. Physical Characters of the French People. (Broca.) 



maximum change has taken place. Out of the eight 

 departments into which it is now divided, only one 

 (Landes) presents the Basque characters, and these have 

 probably been preserved by the vast stretches of sand 

 which have acted as a barrier against invasion. 



The enormous preponderance of Basque characters in 

 the district between the Garonne and Loire is shown in 

 the fact that out of a total of twenty-eight departments 



