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Wales and North Devon and Cornwall, one or two other types 

 rise into importance. One of these I believe to be Iberian. 

 In this the form is distinctly ovoid, as in M. Broca^s Basque 

 skulls. It is conjoined with a dark, almond-shaped, and often 

 obliquely set eye, quite Turanian in character, with arched or 

 oblique eyebrows, and with other features much resembling 

 those I have seen in photographs from the Western Py- 

 renees. Another may be described as rounded-oblong in 

 horizontal section ; it is broader in the forehead and fuller in 

 the temples than the ordinary Keltic head, of which it may, 

 however, be only a variety or cross. It abounds in Wales 

 and North Devon. My friend Mr. David Davis, an acute 

 observer, considers it to be the special Kymric form, as does 

 also Mr. D. Mackintosh. Something like it reappears in the 

 north of England among the Kymro- Scandinavian breed. In 

 Devon and Cornwall some find Romans and Phoenicians ; I 

 cannot say whether they ai'e right or not. 



Let us now see how these facts as to length, and these 

 views, partly based upon measurements, on the other parts of 

 the subject, can be reconciled with the contents of British and 

 Gaulish barrows. There are great difficulties in the way, to 

 which I will advert presently, but I do not think such a 

 reconciliation impossible. In the first place, so far as Ireland 

 is concerned, these difficulties are non-existent. The ancient 

 Irish skulls, as well as the mediaeval and modern ones, are 

 long; the four in the catalogue in the Crania Britannica 

 average 76'2, and the two in the museum at Kilkenny the 

 same modulus to a fraction. Moreover, the physiognomy and 

 proportions of these skulls agree with my description, and 

 are also, as may be seen in the two figured by Dr. Davis, 

 thoroughly Irish. I would treat with respect any opinion put 

 forward by Sir William Wilde ; but I am as yet unconvinced 

 of the existence of any race of globular-headed Irish, though I 

 by no means absolutely deny it.* 



* Of ancient French skulls I know but little, but that little rather 

 strengthens my views ; for during a recent visit to M. Broca, I convinced 

 myself that some if not all of the "Bellovaque" skuUs agreed well with our 

 Keltic type, and those of the Merovingian Franks with our ovoid Anglo- 



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