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hybridisation as has occurred is not recent but of very early date ; their original 
centre of dispersion is the Eastern shore of the Mediterranean and it would appear 
that their racial origin is similar to that which we shall shew later appears probable 
for the other inhabitants of the Eastern Mediterranean. 
In attempting to decide the racial position of the people under discussion we 
are clearly faced with the difficulty that on general grounds we cannot place a greater 
(or a less) reliance on the cephalic index than on other features. Our figures however 
shew that of all the material available the cephalic index is less variable and there- 
fore should prove a good guide even if it does not possess the ideal attributes 
assigned to it by Ripley. Moreover, as we have already shewn, most of the (jther 
characters would lead us to establish a grouping not unlike the grouping on which 
we should have to depend if the cephalic index were our only guide. Clearly then 
the group-complex of what may be called "racial characters" expresses a definite 
entity by which one group may be distinguished from another. We are however 
met by the great difficulty that these groups are in our area by no means 
equally dispersed although this is possibly due to the incomplete nature of our 
data. If we adopt such a method of classification- we cannot admit any of the 
inhabitants of the Eastern Mediterranean to homogeneity with the " Mediterranean 
Race " as exemplified in Corsica, tSardinia and Egypt, but must consider them as 
a mixed race. 
The only clear representatives of the " Armenoid " race are the Bektasch and 
Tadchadsky of Lycia, but the Leukadians have certain points in common with them. 
We have a series of groups which do not appear to be homogeneous occupying an 
intermediate position. There are some remarkable factors which need attention. 
In the homogeneous groups and even among the heterogeneous groups we may 
go great distances and meet little variation. It is a far cry from Giza to Corsica, 
yet the cephalic index of two series from these two groups is closely akin ; 
again from Lycia to the Peloponnese is within our area a comparatively long 
journey, yet the resemblance between the Lycians and the Maniots is in some 
respects most striking. On the other hand if we cross the mountains and travel 
from the Bay of Salarais in Cyprus to the North coast — a leisurely day's journey — 
we find that the two populations are dissimilar. We have shewn however that 
there are two racial types of comparative homogeneity at either end of the scale 
and that those peoples who present these local divergencies are very variable, 
having in every case a high standard deviation. As far as our present evidence 
goes then the subdivision into numerous local types would appear to serve no 
useful purpose. When we find two sets of })eoples whose cephalic index ditters by 
as much as 10 units but who appear to be comparatively homogeneous we are 
justified in considering them to belong to different groups, but when we find 
numerous smaller populations differing no doubt from the limiting groups and from 
each other but all possessing considerable heterogeneity we can most easily explain 
this heterogeneity by admitting racial admixture. This admixture does not 
appear to have been similar in every case, although in a few it has been. We have 
