135 : 25 _seq._ Beddoe, 4, p. 81, says: “As Switzerland, especially its central region, was for ages the great recruiting ground of mercenary soldiers, it is probable that the tall, blond, long-headed element would emigrate at a more rapid rate than the brown, short-headed one. In this way may also be accounted for the apparent decline in the stature of the modern Swiss, who certainly do not, as a rule, now justify the descriptions given of their huge physical development in earlier days, the days of halberds, morgensterns and two-handed swords.” These mercenaries were Teutonic, but their Celtic predecessors were addicted to the same habit as G. Dottin has shown on p. 257 of his _Manuel Celtique_: “When the Celts could not battle on their own account or against their neighbors, they offered their services for the price of silver to foreign kings. There is hardly a country that was not overrun with Celtic mercenaries, nor struggles in which they had not taken part. As far back as 368 B. C. an army sent by Denys, the Ancient, to Corinth to aid the Spartiates, was in part formed of Celtic foot soldiers.” “Pas d’argent, pas de Suisses,” as the old saying has it. See also Gibbon, _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, chap. LV, where are described the Teutonic Varangians in Constantinople, who became the body-guard of the Greek Emperor. 136 : 5. Osborn, 1, pp. 458 and 479 _seq._ See p. 116 of this book. 136 : 7. G. Elliot Smith, 1, p. 179; Haddon, 3; Peake, 2, pp. 160–163; Deniker, 2, p. 313; Zaborowski, 1, pp. 172 _seq._; Hervé, 1, IV, p. 393, and V, p. 18; and the authorities quoted in Osborn. 136 : 14. Russian brachycephaly. See Ripley, pp. 358 _seq._, and the authorities quoted. 136 : 16. See p. 143 : 13 of this book, and notes. 136 : 19–26. Brachycephalic colonies in Scandinavia. See p. 211 : 6 and notes. 136 : 29. Ripley, p. 472. 137 : 2. See the notes to p. 128 : 13. 137 : 8. See pp. 138 : 1, and 163 : 26 of this book. 137 : 21. See the notes to p. 128 : 16. 137 : 29 _seq._ Beddoe, 4, pp. 231–232.