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310 Huxley, Busk, and others into the physique of the people described in the last chapter, who buried their dead in the tombs, and whose skeletons are met with in the alluvia and peat-mosses, reveal the important fact that the population of the British Isles was uniform in character through the whole of the Neolithic age. They were small in stature, averaging five feet five inches in height, according to Dr. Thurnam. The stature of the dead buried in the sepulchral caves of Perthi Chwareu, and in the chambered tomb at Cefn, is estimated by Prof. Busk at a maximum of five feet six inches and at a minimum of four feet ten inches. Their skulls are of fair average capacity, and are of the long or oval type (Fig. 110), the length being due to a