288 THE EEV. J. MAGENS 3.1ELL0, M.A., F.G.S., ETC.^ ON 



cepliali of Neolithic a^'c with the Basques on either side of 

 the Pyrenees, and with these he and others liave connected 

 the Lybians, Kabyles and Berbers, as well as the Gnanches. 

 l^iit we are now told by Professor Sayce that the Guanches, 

 the Lybians, and Kabylo-Berbers belonged to a blond, tall, 

 Dolichocephalic race, with fair golden hair, blue eyes, and a 

 clear freckled skin like the fair Kelt, and also like the Riffs 

 of Morocco. Professor Sayce identifies all these with the 

 Amorite race of Old Testament history. The typical skulls 

 of this race are met with in the Neolithic cromlechs, which 

 M'e find ranging from North Africa through Western Spain 

 and France to Great Britain and Scandinavia, and which 

 are also met Avith in Saxony, JMecklenburg, in Circassia, and 

 in the neighbourhood of the Dead Sea. It may be added 

 that the Guanches have been described as " a tall, handsome 

 race of men, with yellow hair reaching l^elow their Avaists." 



There appears then to be some amount of discrepancy 

 and consequent confusion with respect to some of these 

 races. With regTudto the Basques there must be, according 

 to the aboA^e views, at any rate, tAvo different races repre- 

 sented by the peoples Avho noAv pass under this name, ahz., 

 the Cro-Magnon of de Quatretages, Dolicliocephalic and 

 dark, and the Furfooz race of the same author, Avhich Avae 

 Brachycephalic. 



The tall, blond Amorite race of Professor Sayce seems to 

 he equivalent with de Quatrefages' Canstadttian, Avhich is 

 the Scandinavian of Dr. Penka, Avho identifies it AA^th the 

 primitive Aryans, tiie Robenhausian lake dAvellers of 

 de Mortillet. The theory of Dr. Penka and other authorities 

 who support his AneAvs is that the blond Dolichocephalic 

 ScandinaAnan race " spread soutliAvards during the Neolithic 

 age. imposing its yoke on other populations, carrying Avith it 

 the dialects Avhich dcA^eloped into the Aryan tongues," and at 

 a still earlier period the same race formed part at any rate of 

 the older Palaeolithic inhabitants of Western Europe, leaving 

 as traces of their presence the Avell-knoAvn skulls of Engis and 

 Canstadt. Dr. Penka attributes the blanching of the skin 

 to the prolonged residence of the race in their Northern 

 home, but Avere this the case, may Ave not ask hoAv it is that 

 the Esquimaux and other dAvellers in the Arctic and Sub- 

 Arctic Zone, haA^e for unnumbered ages retamed their dark 

 complexion and hair? We have on a previous occasion 

 found reason to connect this Northern race Avith the Palaeo- 

 lithic affe. Dr. Penka has also made reference to the 



