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less liable to occur in an intermediate, than in a perfectly dis- 
tinct form ; or, in other words, that there is a less tendency to a 
fusion than to a separation of types. For instance; in the Western 
Highlands of Scotland, which were peopled in succession by the 
dark-haired Gacl, and the flaxen-haired Scandinavian, there is, in 
the descendants, less a mixture than a separation of the types ; 
the progeny of many families of the peasantry illustrating the dis- 
tinctness with which Gaelic and Scandinavian characters are repro- 
duced in cases where the paternal and maternal types differ from 
each other. 
In bringing forward these illustrations, it was far from being 
argued that a progeny did not often exhibit an intermediate charac- 
ter, derived from the two races of a paternal and maternal stock ; it 
was simply urged that a separation of types is equally, if not more 
common; and that, when a sort of intermediate character is ac- 
tually derived from two European races, it is not necessarily per- 
petuated to a future progeny. On the contrary, a pure and distinct 
type, even though rendered, for a generation or two, intermediate 
and obscure, is often revived, with all its primitive decision of cha- 
racter. 
The author, lastly, availed himself of the occasion to state, that 
the laws which appertained to the characters of races, hold good also 
with individual distinctions ; and that nature seemed far more in- 
tent upon perpetuating through successive generations, what might 
be named the type of the individual or person, than upon produc- 
ing intermediate likenesses, referred (often fancifully) to two types, 
paternal and maternal. 
From all these observations, it was concluded, that, although in 
every society of mixed races the type of the minority had a ten- 
dency to become merged, or to disappear in that of the majority, 
yet that, by the interposition of relaxed laws, made in favour of 
the mixture of two or more approximating races, such a result 
(in the absence of exterminating wars, famine, or pestilence), may 
be postponed to an incalculable period of time; and, as an ulti- 
mate consequence, that the discovery of ancient European races 
in those which are modern, is a reasonable expectation not likely to 
be frustrated. 
After these observations, the author proceeded to the chief object 
of the Memoir, which was to explain, on ethnological principles, the 
ancient British races enumerated by Tacitus. These were, 1st, the 
Caledonians—* the red hair of those who inhabit Caledonia, and 
their large limbs, bespeak a German origin ;” 2d, the Gauls— 
“© those who are nearest to the Gauls are also similar to them ;” 
and, 3d, the Iberians, indicated by their swarthy features and their 
curled hair. 
The following exhibits a classification of the modern British races, 
