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only two landing places, one at the village, where an artiJ&cial harbour 

 has been made, the other in a little circular basin, shut off from the 

 sea by a wall of high rock, and entered by a sinuous passage. The 

 surface is high, and in places yery rocky, but its lower parts are fertile, 

 much more so, the natives say, than Clare Island. The remarks made 

 as to the fauna, flora, and climate of Inishbofin apply also to Clare 

 Island and Inishturk, except that the golden eagle still nests in 

 Knockmore, and that there are no rabbits on Clare Island. 



III. AWTHKOPOGKAPHY. 



1. Methods. — The methods of observation, the instruments and the 

 forms and nigrescence cards were all precisely the same as those 

 made use of in former surveys, and described in previous reports, so 

 they need not be further referred to here. 



2. Physical Characters. 



(a) General characters. — The people are on the whole of the same- 

 physical types as those of the portion of the Mayo coast which lies 

 opposite to these islands, but there is more uniformity in their appear- 

 ance as is usually the case iu islands and isolated localities. The 

 principal physical characters are as follows : — 



Stature and hulk. — The men are, as a rule, slightly below the 

 middle height and of rather slender build, though looking much 

 stouter than they really are owing to the thickness of the clothing 

 worn. There are but few of the men who can be termed tall (the 

 greatest stature observed was 1800 mm.), and there is, as in Inishbofin, 

 a considerable proportion of men of small stature. The average 

 stature of the fifty- six men who were measured was 1696 mm., or 

 5 feet 6f inches, considerably below the Irish mean stature. 



The women are more even in stature than the men (apparently), 

 and show the personal resemblance more strongly. With a few excep- 

 tions, they cannot be said to be above the average in good looks. 



Limls. — The hand is usually short and broad with square-tipped 

 fingers. The forearm is rather long. The span of arms {yrande 

 envergue) was greater than the stature in every case observed. 



Sead. — The head is well formed and of large size. The cephalic 

 index is usually mesaticephalic, though both brachycephaly and 

 dolichocephaly are met with, the former preponderating. The 

 mean cephalic index, when reduced to the cranial standard by the 

 subtraction of two units is 77-4 (exactly the same as the mean of the 

 people of the Mullet). Of the fifty-six persons measured, eight were 



