THEIR HEIGHT, FORM, AND STRENGTH. 83 



of Civil Engineers in London. He found that the 

 utmost effort of a man, lifting at the rate of one foot 

 per minute, ranged as follows: 



The Irish from 17,325 Ibs. to 27,562 Ibs. 

 The English 11,505 Ibs. 24,255 Ibs. 

 The Welsh 15,112 Ibs. 



82. In the year 1844, Grant, an Englishman, in 

 his Impressions of Ireland, says: "Nothing can 

 be more extreme than the poverty of the peasants 

 yet I never saw a set of finer-looking children than 

 those you meet with in the poorer districts. They 

 far surpass, in the comeliness of their little coun- 

 tenances, the children of this country (England). I 

 saw hundreds of them, whom I thought perfect 

 pictures from the regularity of their features and 

 the regularity of their forms. It is true, as they 

 advance in years, they lose the singular beauty which 

 characterises them in early life. This is to be 

 attributed to the hard destiny of their lives. Eng- 

 lishmen would perish in masses were they compelled 

 to work as hard on such scanty food." 



83. In 1849, George Lewis Smith, of Bridge 

 Street, Westminster, in Ireland Historical and 

 Statistical : " If the Irish, as a people, have one 

 fault more prominent than another, it is that of self- 

 adulation : they praise themselves and their country* 



* I wish they did ; other nations praise themselves and their 

 country, as I know from a residence of eleven years among 

 them. E. H. 



