26 THE IRISH PEOPLE. 



Dublin University Magazine, a well-penned article, 

 entitled " The Attractions of Ireland."* Of the 

 peasants of parts of Ireland he had " the intrepidity 

 of face " to say : " Their open projecting mouths, 

 with their prominent teeth and exposed gums, those 

 high cheek-bones and depressed noses bear bar- 

 barism on their very front, and excite as much re- 

 gret as astonishment that the first specimen of the 

 purely native population met by the stranger should 

 contrast so very disadvantageously with even the 

 hard-featured peasantry of Down. On the planta- 

 tion of Ulster, in 1641 and 1686, great multitudes 

 of the native Irish were driven from Armagh and 

 the south of Down into the Fews; just as on the 

 other side of the kingdom the same race were ex- 

 pelled into Leitrim, Sligo and Mayo. Here they 

 have been almost ever since exposed to the worst 

 effects of hunger and ignorance, the two great brutal-, 

 izers of the human race. ... In Sligo and 

 northern Mayo particularly, the consequences of two 

 centuries of degradation and hardship exhibit them- 

 selves in the whole physical condition of the people, 

 affecting not only the features but the frame; and 

 giving such an example of deterioration from known 

 causes as almost compensates by its value to future 



* Dublin Univ. Magazine, Dec. 1836, pp. 658-675. 



