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oat Mine w ns ati ah 
won ae vie Lappers In 100 persons In 100 Amateur In 100 Cornish 
puree ; Workhouse. deceased. Rowers Wrestlers. 
“atta f || Wee ce i 4:1 emerge Pra eh oaralt te te oc 63 
~. |Middling ...... 26|Middling ,,.... 37|Middling ..,... 6 Middling pra 30 
Short............ 67|\Short.........ec. A4/Short .......ceeee DiShort ........0008 
100| | 100 100 100 
-From a calculation of the weight of the Venus di Medicis at different heights, from 
4 ft.6 in. to 6 ft. 9 in., her weight, supposing her height to have been 5 ft., and her 
dress of the ordinary kind, would be 8 stone 9 lb.—being in the same class with the 
Discoboli. From a calculation of strength in different classes from slender to ex- 
aggerated, the Hercules Farnese being in the exaggerated, the Gladiator being in the 
middle class, taking the strength of a slender man at 100, that of the Gladiator 
would equal 173; the Hercules Farnese 362 at the same height. 
On Dr. Kombst’s Ethnographic Map of Great Britain and Ireland. 
By J. M. Kempxe, M.A. 
On Local and Hereditary Difference of Complexion in Great Britain, with 
some Incidental Notice of the Cimbri. By the Rev. R. Witutams. 
Mr. Williams commented on the fact, that in two districts of our island, the same 
strongly-marked variety of complexion exists which was observed by Tacitus seven- 
teen centuries ago. The primary agent of change was climate; which influenced 
first the skin, next the hair and eyes, and lastly, with the co-operation, perhaps, of 
other agents, changed the configuration of the skull. Next to our own climate, that 
of our ancestors, or the effect of race, was to be considered. It had been attempted 
to explain the xanthous complexion of the Scotch Lowlanders by supposing them 
originally Gothic, and the darker hues of the S.W. Silurians by calling in the aid of 
Iberian intermixture. The last was wrong; for as the language of the Welsh con- 
tained no Basque element, their physiology could not have been influenced by 
Biscayans, The former idea had been partially refuted by Chalmers ; and looking to 
the names of the Pictish kings, of places in the Lowlands, comparing the Welsh Aber 
with the Gaelic Suver, observing the intelligibility of Aneirin’s poems among the 
Britons of the Clyde and those of South Wales, we must conclude that the whole 
western side of the island, from Glasgow to Cornwall, was inhabited by a people 
throughout akin, if nut absolutely identical. Neither wasit true that the Celts could 
be classed as dark, and the Teutons as xanthous. All ancient authors, and especially 
Strabo, made the Celts also xanthous. Strabo even thought their usages alike, and 
their blood akin to the Germans. [le called the Britons of greater stature and less 
yellow-haired than the Gauls. On the whole, this singular phenomenon of a people 
homoio, if not homo-glottous, yet differing physiologically so much as the Caledonians 
and Silurians, and their respective successors at this day, might be referred to the® 
_ well-ascertained custom of the Celts of migrating in two large divisions, as in the 
case of Brennus, &c. One division, leaving the Caspian, entered Europe by the 
Euxine, and the other by the Mediterranean ; one acquired the characteristics of a 
_ Northern, the others retained those of an Oriental people. Mr. Williams proceeded 
_ to show, by tracing various names, that the whole people from Glasgow to Cornwall 
called themselves Cimbri, or Cymry. This people comprehended the Belgz, and 
(excepting only a Teuton inlet from the succeeding tide of population which forced 
itself along the Rhine) they must have extended from Denmark and the mouth of 
the Elbe across Belgic Gaul and England to Wales. It was very important to observe 
that they were not hybrid, but yet formed, in blood and in language, as in geographi- 
cal position, the connecting link between the Irish Celts who preceded, and the 
_ Goths who came after them. Adelung’s idea of the Cumraic containing a Gothic 
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