or THE WEST OP ENGLAND. 357 



may have survived throiigli the bronze period in serfage, rarely 

 appearing in the barrows, and have ultimately fused with its 

 conquerors, modifying their skullform. But if the race was 

 substantially one, and the kymbekephali were merely abei'rant 

 specimens, we have to do with the familiar phenomenon of a 

 wide range of proportionate length and breadth, such as occurs 

 in most races.* Change in the mode of nursing infants may 

 account for one or two per cent, of additional length, and 

 different methods of measurement for something more. Dr. 

 Davis, for example, understands by the glabella the smooth 

 spot, or slight depression, generally found about an inch above 

 the fronto-nasal suture, while my glabella is the point of union 

 of the superciliary ridges. A frowning beetle-browed skull, 

 such as many of the ancient British ones, would therefore yield 

 in my hands a slightly longer antero-posterior diametei,' than in 

 his. 



* Mv 30 Swedes varied from 72-4 to 85-5. 



