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nation of it, which it is proposed to make, will show whether or not it is of the 

 same period. 



The ohservations of Dr. Beddoe and other physical anthropologists upon the 

 present population of the country show that the people of the South-West of Eng- 

 land are, as a rule, shorter and darker than those to the eastward, and my own 

 observations upon the people of this particular district will, when they are sys- 

 tematised, tend to define the area of this ethnical frontier more precisely. It would 

 be a remarkable result if it should hereafter be shown that the physical changes 

 observable in the distribution of the existing population are in any way coincident 

 with these lines of defensive earthworks of the Roman or post-Roman age : and if 

 it should be further shown that the same physical characteristics have persistently 

 belonged to the people of this region ever since the time of the neolithic folk of the 

 long barrows, we shall find ourselves in the presence of anthropological deductions 

 of some value in their bearing on the history of England. I purposely avoid 

 speaking with confidence upon this point, feeling certain that the necessary evi- 

 dence for deciding the question lies buried in the soil of the district, and will here- 

 after be unearthed. I shall resume the inquiry as soon as the harvest, if such it 

 can be called this year, is over, but without bias, and with a mind prepared to 

 throw over any preconceived hypothesis, the moment it shows itself to be untenable. 



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