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it was remarked by the author, that they also differed from each 
other in physical characters,—the Belgz possessing what is named 
a Cymric type, the Gauls proper a Gaulish type, and the Aquitani 
an Iberian type. All these three races were to be distinguished 
from the zanthous, light-haired, Germanic tribes of the West of 
Europe, not only by the dark colour of the hair and eyes, but by 
other particulars, as the form of the head, &c. 
The present memoir was confined to (1st), the Cymric race, and 
(2dly), the Gaelic race. 
(1st), The Cymric race—The physiological distinction of Cymric 
and Gaelic races was first established by the late Dr W. F. Edwards, 
in his memoir ‘‘ Des Caractéres Physiologiques des Races d’Humain.” 
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 Keane. 
The course of Cymric migration from east to west, was inferred 
by ihe 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 
dwelling between the Caspian and Euxine seas, and in certain 
Eygptian sculptures, as figured by Rosellini, of the Feccaro (named 
by Wilkinson, Tokkari) dwelling, in the time of Rameses the Third, 
not far from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Various 
kinds of evidence also demonstrate, that the Cymri are to be traced, 
during 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 Belge. Under the 
name of Fir-bolgs (Viri Bolgz), 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 
