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The lateral palpebral canthus was in most cases slightly, and in a few 
cases very markedly, above the level of the medial canthus. (It appeared 
to be lower than the medial canthus only in some of the old people.) An 
epicanthic fold was rarely seen. 
The details of the colour of the eyes are set out in graphic form on 
page 12. They were not matched for colour against any standard, and 
in consequence the chart can only express a personal estimate of the 
colour distribution. An endeavour was made to separate the eyes into 
six classes: black, dark brown, dark to medium brown, medium brown, 
light brown, and grey or bluish grey. It is quite apparent, despite the 
fact that no standard was employed : 
(a) That at all ages the darke'r colours prevailed at Island lake, where 
light brown and grey eyes were almost totally lacking. 
(b) That the women had darker eyes than the men. 
(c) That the eyes of the Oxford House men tended in general to be 
lighter than even those at Gods lake. 
It will be noted that out of a total of seventeen individuals of all 
ages with grey eyes, fourteen were at Oxford House. And further, it 
would appear that most grey eyes bad passed with increasing age through 
a procession of colour changes; black at birth, they pass through the 
different shades of brown to light brown; later the periphery of the light 
brown eyes changes to grey; from this grey periphery, grey streaks in time 
spread to the pupillary margin, so that grey rays alternate or interdigitate 
with brown ones: still later the peripheral ends of the brown rays fade 
to grey; so that eventually the eye, from being originally black at birth 
becomes a grey one in which brown flecks are dotted in radial manner 
around the margin of the pupil, but this end result, at least in the old 
people, is achieved after the eye has passed through a series of ‘Trans- 
colorations’'. 
This surmise, for it is a surmise, is based on the following observations: 
(1) In all three localities the eyes of the children in arms were definitely 
black, as I had ample opportunity of observing at the missions, 
where numerous mothers with their babies attended. 
(2) A number of adults had light brown eyes, though no one of under 
twenty years had. 
(3) Three of the thirteen persons with light brown eyes, at Oxford 
House, are noted as having a deep outer halo of grey. 
(4) The two cases of grey eyes among the old men at Gods lake, and 
the eight cases among the men and old men at Oxford House 
are all noted as having either brown rays or brown flecks radiating 
from the pupillary margin into a grey background. (Sketches of 
these eyes made at the time confirm this remark.) 
Grey eyes also occurred in six Oxford House children, two being boys 
and four being girls. In two of them it is noted that brown rays were 
present. It is presumed that these six Oxford House children were of 
white admixture. 
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