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them with skulls of those tribes preserved in the Berlin Museum, 

 the following marked differences of measurement were observed : — 

 Comparison of length to breadth, the latter being taken as 1000. 

 Slavic 1173 



1000 



Old Prussian 1445 



1000 



Tilsit Skull 1540 



1000 



Again taking length with height, the latter being assumed as 

 1000, we have :— 



Slavic 1299 



1000 



Old Prussian 1714 



1000 



Tilsit Skull 1862 



1000 



So that the ancient skulls, far from being of a low barbaric type, 

 are of the highest Dolicho cephalic character. The inference is 

 plain that these skulls belong neither to the Slavic, or old Prussian, 

 nor to its cognate Lithuanian Races. But strange to say they 

 have a marked affinity and resemblance to the Celtic skulls in the 

 same Museum. The writer therefore deduces the almost moral 

 certainty that in the pre-historic age the Eastern shores of the 

 Baltic were inhabited by a branch of the Celtic people ; and that 

 that race had a much wider territorial expansion than is usually 

 assigned to it. 



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