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in his memoir " Des Caracteres Physiologiques des Races d'Huniain." 

 The Cymric head is long, and often failing in width. The forehead 

 is large and high ; the nose curved, with the extremity depressed, 

 and the nasal ailes raised or turned up ; the chin strongly marked 

 and prominent, and the stature tall. It was also explained by the 

 author that these physical characters were associated with a distinct 

 moral type. 



It was argued, in the present memoir, that the Cymri had no 

 real pretensions whatever to consider themselves (as in the ancient 

 British triads) a primitive race in Britain. In tracing their pro- 

 gress from their oriental sojourning place to the remote west, they 

 appear to have taken possession of no ground in any part of Europe 

 which had not been preoccupied by other races. The author, in 

 the course of arriving at this conclusion, gave the following historical 

 account of the Cymri. 



Sogdiana and Bactriana appear to have been the cradle of this 

 race. At the present day, the Cymric type may be identified 

 among the wandering tribes of Beloochistan, of which the author 

 had evidence in some very accurate drawings, executed for him by 

 his late son, during the expedition of Lord Kean. 



The course of Cymric migration from east to west, was inferred 

 by the occasional light which history affords of the physical cha- 

 racters of this early race, aided also by philological tests. The 

 Cymric type is to be detected among some of the tribes anciently 

 dwellino- between the Caspian and Euxine seas, and in certain 

 Eo-yptian sculptures, as figured by Rosallini, of the Fcccaro (named 

 by Wilkinson, Tokkari) dwelling, in the time of Barneses the Third, 

 not far from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Various 

 kinds of evidence also demonstrate, that the Cymri are to be traced, 

 durino- their westerly migration, in Persia, along the shores of the 

 Black Sea, in Greece, in Italy, and in the tracts watered by the 

 Danube and the Rhine. They again appear as confederated 

 tribes, known by the appellation of Boii, and Belgse. Under the 

 name of Firbolgs (Viri Bolgse), they peopled Ireland, and, in occupy- 

 ing England and Scotland, they were lastly driven, by Saxon inroads, 

 to the mountainous recesses of Wales. Various details of the greater 

 or less prevalence of the Cymric type, as it is to be traced in these 

 different countries, were supplied by the author. 



(2dJi/), The Gaulish, or Gaelic race. — According to Dr Edwards, 

 the head is round, so as to approach in a manner to a spherical 

 form ; the forehead is moderate, a little swelled out, and retreating 



