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and have broad faces. (See Fig. 11). They have intermarried partly among 

 themselves and partly with Swedes, and owing to this a great many mixed types 

 have arisen. (See Plates XIX XX). The descendants of these Walloons who 

 have now spread themselves over the whole country, probably amount some tens 

 of thousands. 



The Jews are another foreign race who began to settle in Sweden during the 

 latter part of the eighteenth century. They consist of only a few thousand. The 

 same remarks apply to them as to the Walloons, some of them preserve the pu 

 rity of the race, while others intermarry with the Swedes. The Swedish Jews 

 stand in a relatively, high position. Fig. 10 shows a Jew of pure type. 



Lastly we must mention that there are a smaller number of gipsies (Fig. 12) 

 to be found in Sweden. 



The so=called Tattars often the offspring of gipsies are to be found at the 

 present time in many parts of the country. They are unfortunately in no slight 

 degree criminally disposed proletarians of very mixed origin. 



The presence of these foreign races as well as the continual influx of people 

 of different nations cannot be without importance to the character of our race 

 both from a biological as well as a cultural point of view. They are not enti* 

 rely favourable. 



The Swedish nations whole numbers are beetwen 7, and 8 millions of people, 

 of which about 6 millions are found in Sweden, 370,000 in Finland and something 

 more than 100,000 in other European countries. Rather more than a million have 

 found new homes in America, the principal number of these in U. S. A. It is 

 a remarkable circumstance that Swedes who have emigrated to America and Western 

 Europe and very soon become absorbed in and mixed with their hosts, contrary 

 to Finns and Russians, build a national unit which tenaciously retains its vital 

 power for hundreds of years and more. 



