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The work extended mainly to the men called for examination by 

 the first draft for the U. S. Army and comprised 150 individuals. 

 Both measurements and observations were taken. Some of the 

 men came from the lower lands of the Bristol district and were 

 kept apart, but a good number represented the real mountaineers. 



It is too early to speak of the results of this interesting piece of 

 research, the data not having as yet been properly reduced and 



Fig. 51. — Mountaineers of eastern Tennessee. Mr. J. E. Morell, 54 v.; Mrs. M. EUer, 86 y. 



analyzed; but it is safe to say that these mountaineers represent no 

 separate type of Americans. In many cases they still show strong 

 indications of their respective pre-American ancestry. Among the 

 men there were seen some fine examples of physique — willowy, clean- 

 cut six-footers ; but there were also others of rather feeble mental 

 powers or nervous stability, which conditions, to some extent pos- 

 sibly, are due to hereditary efifects of alcoholism, or to defective 

 heredity of other nature. 



