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English. In West Cavan the people are fair, large- 

 limbed, comely, and smooth-featured. 



" Scotch recruits are about equal to those of 

 Leinster and Munster in stature and weight, and 

 superior in both respects to the Irish taken 

 collectively, and they clearly exceed in girth of chest 

 both English and Irish, though the Welsh may equal 

 them in this point. The Welsh recruits weigh 

 heaviest, but their stature is considerably lower 

 than that of the Irish. The English vary very much. 

 Some agricultural counties yield large men, but on 

 the whole they do not quite equal even the Welsh 

 in stature, or the Irish in weight ; and this seems 

 to be mainly due to the low average of the recruits 

 from the metropolis and from manufacturing dis- 

 tricts, and to the short stature (perhaps a race 

 character) prevailing in the south-eastern, or Saxon 

 part of England. At Bristol, the Munster men 

 inspected compare pretty favourably with those 

 from the neighbouring districts, to whom they are 

 decidedly superior in girth of chest; and at Liver- 

 pool the Irish have the advantage in all three 

 respects of the native Lancashire recruits." 



98. In 1862 the war correspondent of the London 

 Times wrote of Fredericksburg : " The battle which 

 had dashed furiously against the lines of Generals 

 Hood, A. P. Hill, and Early, was little more than 



