ue settlements in
the Pyrenees, of mountain-bound Alsace and Bohemia, give local color to
the landscape by the picturesqueness of their national dress.

[Sidenote: Mental and moral qualities.]

With this conservatism of the mountaineer is generally coupled suspicion
toward strangers, extreme sensitiveness to criticism, superstition,
strong religious feeling, and an intense love of home and family. The
bitter struggle for existence makes him industrious, frugal, provident;
and, when the marauding stage has been outgrown, he is peculiarly honest
as a rule. Statistics of crime in mountain regions show few crimes
against property though many against person. When the mountain-bred man
comes down into the plains, he brings with him therefore certain
qualities which make him a formidable competitor in the struggle for
existence,--the strong muscles, unjaded nerves, iron purpose, and
indifference to luxury bred in him by the hard conditions of his native
environment.

NOTES TO CHAPTER XVI

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[1254] For full discussion, see H.R. Mill, International Geography, pp.
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[1255] J. Thomson, Through Masai Land, pp. 78-82, 113-115, 122, 140-141,
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[1256] J. Russell Smith, Plateaus in Tropical America, in Report of
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[1257] Isaiah Bowman, The Distribution of Population in Bolivia,
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[1258] D.G. Hogarth, The Nearer East, p. 157. London, 1902.

[1259] Roosevelt, Winning of the West, Vol. I, pp. 52-56. New York,
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[1261] G.L. Gomme, The Village Community, pp. 72, 75-95. New York, 1890.

[1262] H.R. Mill, International Geography, pp. 148, 154, 155. New York,
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[1263] J. Partsch, Central Europe, pp. 204, 207. London, 1903.

[1264] H.R. Mill, International Geography, p. 304. New York, 1902.

[1265] J. Partsch, Central Europe, p. 221. London, 1903.

[1266] Alfred Stead, Japan by the Japanese, p. 425. London, 1904. Henry
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[1267] Boyd Winchester, The Swiss Republic, pp. 307-308. Phila., 1891.

[1268] Wilhelm Deecke, Italy