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Stature and hulk. — The inhabitants of these islands are of average 

 stature, or slightly above it ; there are very few of the men who can 

 really be termed small, and a good proportion of them are of tall sta- 

 ture. ^J'he mean height of the 65 adult males measured was 1 739 mm., 

 or 5 feet S^ inches. The extremes were 1650 mm. (5 feet 5 inches), 

 and 1R55 mm. (6 feet 1 inch). Of these 65 men, 8 were of 1800 mm. 

 (5 feet 1 1 inches) and upwards. The general build is stout and square, 

 with great depth of chest, and their muscular strength seems to be far 

 above the average. Their lifting power is especially great. They are 

 very hardy, and capable of bearing a great deal of hunger, fatigue, and 

 wet. 



The women seem to be above the average in height, and are very 

 stout and strong. One young woman of 18 who was measured had a 

 stature of 1780 mm. (5 feet 10 inches). 



Limls. — The hands and feet are large and bony, the former being 

 broad, with squarely tipped fingers. In spite of very hard work their 

 hands are well-shaped. The forearm (measured from the styloid pro- 

 cess to the head of the radius) is very long for the stature, and the 

 span of the arms {grand envergue) is also in many cases great. In no 

 case was this last measurement less than the stature. 



The women's feet are large and flat, due to their constantly going 

 barefooted and carrying heavy loads. 



Head. — The head is well-shaped. The forehead is upright, with 

 well-marked frontal eminences ; glabella and superciliary ridges both 

 rather prominent. The vertex is rounded ; the occipital region does 

 not, as a rule, project, but rises straight in the line of the neck. The 

 eyebrows are thick and level, usually lighter in shade than the hairs of 

 the scalp, and, in a large proportion of cases, meet in the middle line. 



The mean cephalic index of the 65 men measured was 76'9 (or, de- 

 ducting two units to reduce to the cranial standard, 74:9). It thus 

 lies on the borderland between dolichocephaly and mesaticephaly. In 

 17 instances the men measured were brachycephalic, in 37 mesati- 

 cephalic, and in 9 dolichocephalic. 



Face. — The face is of medium length, with prominent cheek-bones. 

 It narrows in the bigonial region as in the case of the Aran Islanders. 

 The angles of the jaws project somewhat, and are apparently everted. 

 The nose is straight, and generally long and sharply pointed; in many 

 cases it is aquiline. The mean nasial index is 63'4. The mouth is 

 not large, and the lips are of medium thickness ; the heavy hanging 

 lower lip so commonly seen in the west of Ireland is not so noticeable 

 a feature among these people as it is among the inhabitants of the 



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