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south, say from Normandy to Vienna. Even in these most brunette 

 areas pure dark types are not very frequent. No such extremes 

 occur as Italy and southern France present. The prevailing com- 

 bination is of dark hair and grayish or hazel eyes. Such is particu- 

 larly the case among the western Irish and southern Welsh.* So 

 striking is the brunetteness in the latter case that we find an early 

 writer in this century, the Rev. T. Price, ascribing the prevalence 

 of black hair in Glamorganshire to the common use of coal as fuel. 

 Without accepting this hypothesis, we may be certain of the strongly 

 accentuated brunetteness of the peasantry hereabouts. The accom- 

 panying Welsh type, strongly brunette, with black hair, is a good 

 example. The opposite extreme of blondness corresponds, as nearly 

 as we can judge, to the continental populations in the latitude of 

 Cologne. Light hair and brown or blue eyes become common. 

 This is not as fair as the pure Teutonic race in Scandinavia. We 

 shall probably not be far wrong in the statement that the extremes 



Scottish Highlands. 



Tall, Lighter Type. Moray. 



" A Good Specimen of the Little 

 Dark Race." Argyleshire. 



in the British Isles are about as far separated from one another as 

 Berlin is from Vienna. In the darkest regions pure brunette types 

 are more frequent than the blond by about fifteen per cent. In the 

 eastern and northern counties, on the other hand, the blondes are in a 

 majority by an excess of about five per cent. Everywhere, however, 



* The recent work of Haddon and Browne, published in the Proceedings of the Royal 

 Irish Academy, Dublin, since 1893, on the western Irish, is our best recent authority on this 

 people. 



