92 THE IRISH PEOPLE. 



their race for noble features and a proud carriage, 

 which would attract attention anywhere."* 



96. I have reserved for the last the results 

 recently arrived at by scientific men. In his 

 treatises, " On the Bulk and Stature of the People 

 of Great Britain,"* and The Races of Britain, 

 Dr. Beddoe writes : " The Irish military returns 

 overtop the English by a quarter of an inch. Taken, 

 altogether, the Irish were and are, at all events 

 under favourable media, a tall race. Whatever an 

 importation of old Norsemen and modern Scotchmen 

 may have done, one of modern Southern English 

 and Welsh is more likely to have lowered the 

 standard than to have raised it. The large-boned, 

 long-headed, hard-featured, grey-eyed, dark-brown- 

 haired men yield the common type of the Irish 

 Kelt. The Irish, as a whole, are considerably lighter 

 in eye, but yet more considerably darker in hair 

 than the English as a whole. The concave noses 

 are far from being as common as is supposed. The 

 really predominant form is the long, sinuous, and 

 prominent, especially at the point. In Ireland, 

 East and North England, the concave nose is only 



* Reclus' Universal Geography, translated by Ravenstein. 

 Div. viii., p. 402. 



t Races of Britain, pp. 266, 238, 142, and 27, Vol. iii. of 

 Memoirs of the Anthropological Society, "On the Bulk and 

 Stature of the People of Great Britain." 



