82 THE IRISH PEOPLE. 



STAOTBE IN INCHES. 



STRENGTH IN POUNDS. 



According to Chambers' Information for the 

 People, " This table places the Irishmen uppermost 

 in the scale of stature. The comparison seems fair 

 as regards the parties taken, for if there were any 

 peculiarity in their condition as students, it must 

 have been common to all. As a comparison of 

 national heights, therefore, the table, perhaps, 

 exhibits conclusions pretty generally applicable, and 

 we shall find it borne out by similar comparisons of 

 weight and strength."* 



81. In 1840 (?) Mr.* Field, an eminent mechanical 

 engineer of London, examined the relative powers of 

 British and Irish labourers to raise weights by a 

 crane. He communicated his results to the Institute 



* See also Chambers' Encyclopaedia, Vol. vi., p. 294. 



